THE NUMBERS IN THE BIBLE AND THE END TIME

THE NUMBERS IN THE BIBLE AND THE END TIME

Adilson W. Firmino

Numbers in the Bible and the end time

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SUMMARY

Preface......................................................................................... 6 Chapter 1 - Number Four.............................................................. 8 In the Old Testament................................................................... 8 Creating ......................................................................................... 8 The river in the Garden of Eden ................................ .................... 9 Flood ............................................................................................. 9 Isaac and Rebekah ................................. ...................................... 9 Esau and his wives ............................... ...................................... 10 The period of slavery ................................ ................................... 10 Moses .......................................................................................... 11 Twelve sent to spy out the land of Canaan ................................... 12 Pilgrimage in the desert ............................... ............................... 14 The Ten Commandments ................................. ........................... 16 Building the Shrine ............................... ...................................... 16 Disobedience of Israel .................................. ………………….......... 17 Joshua gives Hebron to Caleb ............................... ...................... 18 Division of land for the people ............................. ........................ 19 Period of the Judges ................................ .................................... 20 Other references in the Book of Judges ......................................... 20 Jewish People in the hands of the Philistines ................................ 21 Reigns of Saul, David and Solomon ............................................... 21 Construction of the Temple by Solomon ........................................ 22 Walk Elijah .............................. .................................................... 22 Reign of Joash ................................ ............................................. 22 Reign of Jeroboam ................................. ...................................... 22 Four men in the furnace ............................... ............................... 22 Word of the Lord unto Zechariah .............................. ................... 24 From Malachi to John the Baptist .............................. ................. 24 Psalm 40 ................................. .................................................... 24 In the New Testament...................................................................24 Temptation of Jesus ..................................................................... 24 Prophecy of Jesus ........................................................................ 25 Resurrection of Lazarus ............................................................... 25 Risen Jesus .................................................... ............................ 26 Chapter 2 - The number Three ......................................... ......... 27 In the Old Testament .................................................................. 27 Adam - Abraham - Jesus .................................... ......................... 27 Abraham - Isaac - Jacob ..................................... ......................... 27


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Three messengers come to Abraham ........................................ ... 28 Joseph appears to Pharaoh ...................................... ................... 28 Weeping and mourning for Moses .......................... ..................... 29 Age of David .............................. ................................................. 29 Prayer of Daniel .............................. ............................................ 29 Jonah and Jesus ......................................................................... 29 The Lord descends on Mount Sinai ........................... .................. 29 The Lord hears the Hezekiah ............................ .......................... 32 Esther before King ............................ .......................................... 32 In the New Testament ............................... .................................. 33 The three kings ............................. .............................................. 33 Baby Jesus in the Temple ............................. .............................. 33 Baptism of Jesus ............................. ............................................ 33 Age of Jesus ............................. ................................................... 33 Temptation of Jesus ............................. ....................................... 34 Jesus turns water into wine .......................... .............................. 34 The three tabernacles ............................. ..................................... 36 Crowd hears Jesus ............................. ......................................... 37 Rebuilding the Temple ............................. .................................... 37 Parable of the Yeast .............................. ....................................... 37 Parable of the robbers .............................. .................................... 37 Parable of the importunate friend ............................ ..................... 37 Parable of the fig ............................. ............................................. 38 Jesus, Mary and Martha - three meetings ................................ ..... 38 Jesus, the way the truth and the life ...................... ...................... 39 Judas' betrayal ............................. ............................................... 40 Peter denies Jesus ............................. .......................................... 41 Jesus prays in Gethsemane ............................. ............................ 41 Jesus before the Sanhedrin - Herod - Pilate ................................... 42 Pilate Jesus insists on releasing ............................ ....................... 43 The crucifixion ............................. ................................................ 43 Three crucified .............................. ............................................... 44 Three hours of darkness on Earth .......................... ...................... 44 Resurrection of Jesus .............................. ..................................... 45 Third manifestation of the risen Jesus ........................................... 45 Peter is interrogated three times by Jesus .................................... . 45 Jesus and the fulfillment of scripture ......................................... .. 46 Faith, hope and love .......................... ........................................... 46 The threefold testimony about Christ ............................ ................ 47 Three prayers ............................... ................................................ 48 Chapter 3 - The number Seven .......................................... ......... 50 In the Old Testament .......................................... ........................ 50 Creating ............................................... ......................................... 50 Flood ............................... .............................................................. 51 The work of Jacob ............................................ ............................. 51 The meeting of Jacob and Esau ........................... .......................... 51 The dreams of Pharaoh ............................. .................................... 52


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Institution Easter ......................... .............................................. 52 The seventy Elders ........................... .......................................... 53 The Chandelier ............................. ............................................. 53 Consecration Ceremony .............................. ................................ 53 Leprosy .............................. ......................................................... 54 Sabbath .............................. ........................................................ 54 Jewish Pentecost .............................. .......................................... 54 The Day of Atonement .............................. ................................... 55 Feast of Tabernacles ................................ .................................... 55 The Rest of the Year ............................... ...................................... 56 The Jubilee Year .............................. ............................................ 57 Punishment of ............................... .............................................. 57 Seven Nations ............................... .............................................. 58 The Year of Redemption .............................. ................................ 58 Destruction of Jericho .............................. ................................... 59 Rest of the earth divided into seven parts .......................... ......... 59 Oppression of the Midianites ............................... ........................ 59 Psalms and Proverbs .............................. .................................... 60 Job and God ............................. .................................................. 60 Isaiah ............................... ........................................................... 61 Jeremiah .............................. ...................................................... 61 Ezekiel .............................. ......................................................... 62 Daniel ............................. ........................................................... 63 Zacarias ............................ ........................................................ 66 In the New Testament ............................ .................................... 67 Seven loaves ............................. ................................................. 67 Forgiveness ............................ ................................................... 67 Mission of the Seventy .......................... .................................... 67 Jesus appears to seven disciples .......................... ..................... 68 Revelation ............................ ..................................................... 68 The Seventh Trumpet ........................... ..................................... 71 Chapter 4 - Relationship Between the Numbers ……............... 72 The Fourth Day - The Fourth Millennium .................... .......... 72 The fourth day ......................... ................................................. 72 The Fourth Millennium ......................... .................................... 74 Day Three - The Third Year - Third Millennium........................77 Third Day .......................... ........................................................ 77 Third Year .......................... ....................................................... 78 Third Millennium .......................... ............................................ 78 Psalm 90 .......................... ........................................................ 78 2 Peter, Chapter 3 ........................ ............................................ 78 Signs on Earth ......................... ................................................ 80 Gospel of Matthew .......................... .......................................... 80 Gospel of Mark .......................... ............................................... 83 Gospel of Luke ........................... ............................................... 85 Third Millennium - Seventh Millennium ........... ......... .......... 86 Psalm 90 and 2 Peter, Chapter 3 ..................... ......................... 87


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The Seventh Day - The Seventh Year - The Seventh Millennium. 88 Seventh Day ............................... .................................................... 89 Seventh Year .......................................... ........................................ 89 Seventh Millennium .................................... ................................... 89 The hours of Jesus' crucifixion .............................................. ......... 91 Chapter 5 - Chronology of the Bible ............................................. 94 Chronological data in the Good Book .......................................... .... 96 Chapter 6 - The Divine Number .............................................. ..... 98 Introduction ............................... ................................................... 98 In nature ............................... ........................................................ 99 Final Considerations ............................... .................................... 102 Chapter 7-The Book given to the end time……………..………….. 104


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PREFACE Dear Reader, We live in a world where it's been nearly two thousand years of death and resurrection of our Lord Jesus Christ. The Holy Bible has traveled virtually all four corners of the earth, across east and west already know the name of Him who came into the world to bring eternal life to those who believe in Him. Christian churches are scattered everywhere, and after these two thousand years what we see is the enormous diversity of classifications in their denominations in order successive divisions occurring in the Christian with the passing of these two thousand years. Despite this diversity, a certainty prevails in most of the Christian religion: the return of our Lord Jesus Christ is very close, because almost all the signs foretold by our Lord Jesus - in particular, by reading the book of Revelation - there remains doubt on this point. But we put the question is: Are the Christian churches preaching the gospel in an intense way of the Kingdom of God ordained by our Lord Jesus and as a consequence, preparing the bride for the marriage of the lamb? It seems we are experiencing a period of contradictions, blind alleys, precisely because the strategy itself created by Satan, for this end time. On the one hand, that churches take Jesus is at the door, on the other, however, practice preaching massive healing and prosperity. What is happening then? The day and hour when Jesus will come back nobody knows, but the Father But through this work, we intend to show there in the Good Book, abundant reference as to when this would occur through the mysteries related to the numbers cited in the Holy Book. After reading the Holy Bible, something caught my attention. The


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number of references that have identical numbers throughout the Holy Book from Genesis to Revelation is something amazing and wonderful as the revelation of a mystery after the drafting of the last book (Revelation), all pieces fit perfectly and smoothly , as can be, by reason of perfection that is our God. In fact, many numbers in the Bible are cited repeatedly, each possessing a significance with regard to God's plan. However, three of these numbers will be addressed in this work, since together reveal the mystery of God from creation to the end of time, with the return of our Lord Jesus Christ, namely the four, three and finally the seven.''' Initially, we will show the number four and its derivatives (the fourth, forty, four hundred). You are so intense he present in the Old Testament, and reading the verses in which he appears, translates into something like "hope," "Patience", "preparation period". Subsequently, we also note that the number that appears in the Holy Bible on numerous occasions, and now much more frequent in the New Testament, is the three and their derivatives (thirty, three hundred, the third). We also note that this number has close relationship with the life of our Lord Jesus Christ, whose completion of their meaning by reading the Bible passages was "running", "realization," consummation. " Finally, the last number or perhaps the "first", we know - our God knows - it's seven, which appears several times in both the Old and New Testaments, especially in the first (Genesis) and last book (Revelation) representing the number of perfection, the day God rested from all his work he had done. We explained further that were brought to this work, some passages revealed by God to this author when preparing this study, which is why when reading this book the reader may refer to other passages of the Holy Book were not here presented. We hope that reading this book, somehow, not only serve as a tool for reflection on the current state of our relationship with the Church of Christ, but also awakens a sense of confirmation that the return of our Lord Jesus Christ really is very come and that the fruits of these feelings result in effective participation in the work of our Lord Jesus, to take all the preaching of the gospel of the kingdom of God. Maranatha! Jesus comes!


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Chapter 1

THE NUMBER FOUR

WAITING ON THE LORD IN THE OLD TESTAMENT

CREATION Initially, we note in the first chapter of the Book of Genesis, an important presence of this number as a divisive factor among the things that our God created both before and after the fourth day. By the fourth day, we see that God created the light (day), has separated between water and water (second day), split between land and seas, production of green grass, seed, fruit tree (third day), and created the sun, moon and stars (fourth day). By the fifth day God created the seas then reptiles, birds and whales, and the sixth day God made the beasts of the earth, cattle, and every creeping thing of the earth, and finally created man and woman. On the seventh day God rested from all his work he had done.


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Note that by the fourth day, there was still life on earth, for only the fifth and sixth day God set aside to create life as described above. Soon, the "four" is presented here as a preparation for life to come to earth.

DO RIO NO JARDIM DO ÉDEN

(Gênesis 2:10) - And a river went out of Eden to water the garden; and from thence it was parted, and became into four heads.

THE FLOOD When God decided to put an end to all that was done, Noah and his family had to "wait" for forty days and forty nights he had to order all the rain that God has laid on the ground.

GEN 7:4 For yet seven days, and I will cause it to rain upon the earth forty days and forty nights; and every living substance that I have made will I destroy from off the face of the earth. GEN 7:12 And the rain was upon the earth forty days and forty nights. GEN 7:17 And the flood was forty days upon the earth; and the waters increased, and bare up the ark, and it was lift up above the earth. GEN 8:6 And it came to pass at the end of forty days, that Noah opened the window of the ark which he had made:

Isaac and Rebecca

GEN 25:20 And Isaac was forty years old when he took Rebekah to wife, the daughter of Bethuel the Syrian of Padanaram, the sister to Laban the Syrian. GEN 25:21 And Isaac entreated the LORD for his wife, because she was barren: and the LORD was entreated of him, and Rebekah his wife conceived. GEN 25:26 And after that came his brother out, and his hand took hold on Esau's heel; and his name was


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called Jacob: and Isaac was threescore years old when she bare them.

Isaac waited for forty years, that God would prepare a wife. As the LORD had respect for Isaac, send him a wife named Rebekah. This, in turn, was barren, leading Isaac to pray to the Lord for his wife to give her children. The word tells us that Isaac prayed for twenty years to conceive, Rebekah Esau and Jacob. ESAU AND THEIR WIVES

GEN 26:34 And Esau was forty years old when he took to wife Judith the daughter of Beeri the Hittite, and Bashemath the daughter of Elon the Hittite: GEN 26:35 Which were a grief of mind unto Isaac and to Rebekah.

Unlike what happened with Jacob, Esau having the age of forty, took to himself two wives, and the above verse shows that these wives were for parents of Esau, a spirit of bitterness, or sadness and grief caused Isaac and Rebekah.

THE TIME OF SLAVERY Having become slaves in Egypt, the people of Israel had to "wait " for four hundred and thirty years to be released.

GEN 15:13 And he said unto Abram, Know of a surety that thy seed shall be a stranger in a land that is not theirs, and shall serve them; and they shall afflict them four hundred years; EX 12:40 Now the sojourning of the children of Israel, who dwelt in Egypt, was four hundred and thirty years.

God tells us there is a strict relationship in the following points: the life of Moses and Jesus Christ, the waiting time, and ultimately, slavery. Consider: The Jewish people remained slaves for "four hundred and thirty years to acquire the freedom which was achieved by sending Moses to the land of Egypt. After liberation from slavery, it was also necessary to wander in the desert for forty years to reach the promised land. We also saw that this period of pilgrimage occurred due to the disobedience of Israel.


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Now let a relationship with the work of Jesus Christ. Since Adam, it took about four thousand years (two thousand years from Adam to Abraham and two thousand years from Abraham to Jesus Christ) that Jesus was sent to earth for the deliverance of the children of God from the slavery of sin. Just as it took forty years for the people of Israel entered the Promised Land, will also be taken four thousand years for the children of God to enter the kingdom of God, by inheritance, namely, a wait of two thousand years since the promise made Abraham to Jesus Christ and the remainder over a two thousand years of Jesus until today. MOSES

ACTS 7:22 And Moses was learned in all the wisdom of the Egyptians, and was mighty in words and in deeds. (ACTS 7:23 And when he was full forty years old, it came into his heart to visit his brethren the children of Israel. ACTS 7:24 And seeing one of them suffer wrong, he defended him, and avenged him that was oppressed, and smote the Egyptian: ACTS 7:25 For he supposed his brethren would have understood how that God by his hand would deliver them: but they understood not. ACTS 7:26 And the next day he shewed himself unto them as they strove, and would have set them at one again, saying, Sirs, ye are brethren; why do ye wrong one to another? ACTS 7:27 But he that did his neighbour wrong thrust him away, saying, Who made thee a ruler and a judge over us? ACTS 7:28 Wilt thou kill me, as thou diddest the Egyptian yesterday? ACTS 7:29 Then fled Moses at this saying, and was a stranger in the land of Madian, where he begat two sons. ACTS 7:30 And when forty years were expired, there appeared to him in the wilderness of mount Sina an angel of the Lord in a flame of fire in a bush. ACTS 7:35 This Moses whom they refused, saying, Who made thee a ruler and a judge? the same did God send to be a ruler and a deliverer by the hand of the angel which appeared to him in the bush. ACTS 7:36 He brought them out, after that he had


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shewed wonders and signs in the land of Egypt, and in the Red sea, and in the wilderness forty years.

Here we have three periods of forty years connected with the life of Moses, all related to a waiting period. The first period corresponds to the time spent waiting on that to come into your heart the desire to visit his brothers, the people of Israel, because God had a purpose for his servant Moses of the deliverance of his people. The second period of forty years, corresponds to the time when Moses was away from his people, until the angel of God appeared in the wilderness of Mount Sinai. Finally, the third sentence of forty years, concerns the end of their journey when Moses receives God's mission to lead his people through the desert, freeing them from the bondage of Egypt and leading them to the promised land. TWELVE SENT TO SPY THE LAND OF CANAAN

NUM 13:1 And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying, NUM 13:2 Send thou men, that they may search the land of Canaan, which I give unto the children of Israel: of every tribe of their fathers shall ye send a man, every one a ruler among them. NUM 13:3 And Moses by the commandment of the LORD sent them from the wilderness of Paran: all those men were heads of the children of Israel. NUM 13:25 And they returned from searching of the land after forty days. NUM 13:26 And they went and came to Moses, and to Aaron, and to all the congregation of the children of Israel, unto the wilderness of Paran, to Kadesh; and brought back word unto them, and unto all the congregation, and showed them the fruit of the land. NUM 13:27 And they told him, and said, We came unto the land whither thou sentest us, and surely it floweth with milk and honey; and this is the fruit of it. NUM 13:28 Nevertheless the people be strong that dwell in the land, and the cities are walled, and very great: and moreover we saw the children of Anak there. NUM 13:29 The Amalekites dwell in the land of the south: and the Hittites, and the Jebusites, and the Amorites, dwell in the mountains: and the


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Canaanites dwell by the sea, and by the coast of Jordan. NUM 13:30 And Caleb stilled the people before Moses, and said, Let us go up at once, and possess it; for we are well able to overcome it. NUM 13:31 But the men that went up with him said, We be not able to go up against the people; for they are stronger than we. NUM 13:32 And they brought up an evil report of the land which they had searched unto the children of Israel, saying, The land, through which we have gone to search it, is a land that eateth up the inhabitants thereof; and all the people that we saw in it are men of a great stature. NUM 13:33 And there we saw the giants, the sons of Anak, which come of the giants: and we were in our own sight as grasshoppers, and so we were in their sight. NUM 14:26 And the LORD spake unto Moses and unto Aaron, saying, NUM 14:27 How long shall I bear with this evil congregation, which murmur against me? I have heard the murmurings of the children of Israel, which they murmur against me. NUM 14:28 Say unto them, As truly as I live, saith the LORD, as ye have spoken in mine ears, so will I do to you: NUM 14:29 Your carcasses shall fall in this wilderness; and all that were numbered of you, according to your whole number, from twenty years old and upward which have murmured against me. NUM 14:30 Doubtless ye shall not come into the land, concerning which I sware to make you dwell therein, save Caleb the son of Jephunneh, and Joshua the son of Nun. NUM 14:31 But your little ones, which ye said should be a prey, them will I bring in, and they shall know the land which ye have despised. NUM 14:32 But as for you, your carcasses, they shall fall in this wilderness. NUM 14:33 And your children shall wander in the wilderness forty years, and bear your whoredoms, until your carcasses be wasted in the wilderness. NUM 14:34 After the number of the days in which ye searched the land, even forty days, each day for a year, shall ye bear your iniquities, even forty years, and ye shall know my breach of promise.


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NUM 14:35 I the LORD have said, I will surely do it unto all this evil congregation, that are gathered together against me: in this wilderness they shall be consumed, and there they shall die. NUM 14:36 And the men, which Moses sent to search the land, who returned, and made all the congregation to murmur against him, by bringing up a slander upon the land, NUM 14:37 Even those men that did bring up the evil report upon the land, died by the plague before the LORD. NUM 14:38 But Joshua the son of Nun, and Caleb the son of Jephunneh, which were of the men that went to search the land, lived still.

The land that God promised the people of Israel, was not empty, but it was inhabited by very strong, so that the promise of the land of Canaan should be won through struggle and perseverance. Could you turn over the land without major difficulties, a ready-made land without inhabitants, but the Lord needed to prove the faith of its people, or if she was up for any challenge that was greater. With the exception of Joshua and Caleb, all others who searched the land, they returned all discouraged, behold, the conquest would be impossible, because of people who lived there. But Joshua and Caleb believed in the promise of the Lord. Here, we emphasize again three verses inserted in the text above, which then repeat:

NUM 13:25 And they returned from searching of the land after forty days. NUM 14:33 And your children shall wander in the wilderness forty years, and bear your whoredoms, until your carcasses be wasted in the wilderness. NUM 14:34 After the number of the days in which ye searched the land, even forty days, each day for a year, shall ye bear your iniquities, even forty years, and ye shall know my breach of promise.

Thus, we see that the Lord God according to his purpose, made for each day that the earth was glance, to be represented by one year for the pilgrimage in the desert. In this passage, God reveals in his work, a prophetic list of day and year. Already, in another passage the Lord presents a relationship between a day and a millennium, namely:

2PET 3:8 But, beloved, be not ignorant of this one thing, that one day is with the Lord as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day.


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Thus, we have two waiting periods that were related to the promised land. The first sentence (forty days) was the time that the people of Israel waited for the earth was peek. Already, the second period (forty years) was needed so that people could then enter on that land. In both, the meaning is the same, ie one expects to fulfill God's purpose. Already in its second letter of Peter, chapter 3, verse 8, the relationship is between a day and a millennium, that is, what God has appointed for the seventh day, so too will come to the seventh millennium, and what was determined to the fourth day, also to be the fourth millennium, and finally, which has designated the third day will be consummated in the third millennium, as will be discussed in subsequent chapters of this work. PILGRIMAGE OF THE DESERT After the liberation of Israel from Egypt, it was necessary to "wait" a period of forty years of wandering in the wilderness, so that people could reach the land of Canaan. Through the following verse (8:2 DT), we have the Lord God, determined the period of forty years in order to humiliate, to taste, to know what was in the heart of the Jewish people to obey the Lord or not.

DEUT 2:7 For the LORD thy God hath blessed thee in all the works of thy hand: he knoweth thy walking through this great wilderness: these forty years the LORD thy God hath been with thee; thou hast lacked nothing. DEUT 8:2 And thou shalt remember all the way which the LORD thy God led thee these forty years in the wilderness, to humble thee, and to prove thee, to know what was in thine heart, whether thou wouldest keep his commandments, or no. DEUT 8:4 Thy raiment waxed not old upon thee, neither did thy foot swell, these forty years.

As we said earlier, since the promise made to Abraham, it's been four thousand years (two thousand years before Jesus and two thousand years until today), and all we saw was that God's purpose was the same as had with the people of Israel in the wilderness. In these four thousand years, sought to prove God and humiliate its people, to know what was in his heart, keep the commandments or not. And what we discover? A people that after entering the promised land remained disobedient, not respecting God's commandments. When


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Jesus Christ was sent to consummation of the work, the people did not receive it, surrendered before the death. What God tells us and teaches us all this is the following message: the promise made to Israel in the wilderness, into the land of Canaan only Joshua and Caleb, who went out of Egypt. Both believed in God's promise, since even before the difficulties they faced to possess the promised land, remained firm in their hearts to confirm the word of God. And for the promise of the Kingdom of God, how come it? As it was with Joshua and Caleb, will also be with us. Even before large trials, even when Satan wants to show us the defeat, if we believe firmly in God's word, nailing it in our hearts, and we will receive the promise with Jesus Christ in the kingdom prepared for the children of God. God has shown the promised land for Joshua and Caleb, but it was still necessary to conquer it. And this achievement was possible only with the help of God, who would guide them in everything. Likewise, the Kingdom of God we were shown through Jesus Christ, only here the conquest of this kingdom will by faith that he is the Christ, Savior of our souls. 1JN 5:1 Whosoever believeth that Jesus is the Christ is born of God: and every one that loveth him that begat loveth him also that is begotten of him. 1JN 5:2 By this we know that we love the children of God, when we love God, and keep his commandments. 1JN 5:3 For this is the love of God, that we keep his commandments: and his commandments are not grievous. 1JN 5:4 For whatsoever is born of God overcometh the world: and this is the victory that overcometh the world, even our faith. 1JN 5:5 Who is he that overcometh the world, but he that believeth that Jesus is the Son of God? THE TEN COMMANDMENTS When Moses went up the mountain, had to "wait" for forty days and forty nights to write the Ten Commandments.

EX 34:28 And he was there with the LORD forty days and forty nights; he did neither eat bread, nor drink water. And he wrote upon the tables the words of the covenant, the ten commandments.


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DEUT 9:9 When I was gone up into the mount to receive the tables of stone, even the tables of the covenant which the LORD made with you, then I abode in the mount forty days and forty nights, I neither did eat bread nor drink water: DEUT 9:11 And it came to pass at the end of forty days and forty nights, that the LORD gave me the two tables of stone, even the tables of the covenant.

BUILDING THE SHRINE We also note the following verses, the constant presence of the number four at various times when the building of the temple which God spoke to Moses that his people did.

EX 25:12 And thou shalt cast four rings of gold for it, and put them in the four corners thereof; and two rings shall be in the one side of it, and two rings in the other side of it. EX 25:25 And thou shalt make unto it a border of an hand breadth round about, and thou shalt make a golden crown to the border thereof round about. EX 25:26 And thou shalt make for it four rings of gold, and put the rings in the four corners that are on the four feet thereof. EX 25:34 And in the candlesticks shall be four bowls made like unto almonds, with their knops and their flowers. EX 26:2 The length of one curtain shall be eight and twenty cubits, and the breadth of one curtain four cubits: and every one of the curtains shall have one measure. EX 26:8 The length of one curtain shall be thirty cubits, and the breadth of one curtain four cubits: and the eleven curtains shall be all of one measure. EX 26:32 And thou shalt hang it upon four pillars of shittim wood overlaid with gold: their hooks shall be of gold, upon the four sockets of silver. EX 27:2 And thou shalt make the horns of it upon the four corners thereof: his horns shall be of the same: and thou shalt overlay it with brass. EX 27:4 And thou shalt make for it a grate of network of brass; and upon the net shalt thou make four brazen rings in the four corners thereof. EX 27:16 And for the gate of the court shall be an hanging of twenty cubits, of blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine twined linen, wrought with


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needlework: and their pillars shall be four, and their sockets four. EX 28:17 And thou shalt set in it settings of stones, even four rows of stones: the first row shall be a sardius, a topaz, and a carbuncle: this shall be the first row. EX 36:24 And forty sockets of silver he made under the twenty boards; two sockets under one board for his two tenons, and two sockets under another board for his two tenons. EX 36:26 And their forty sockets of silver; two sockets under one board, and two sockets under another board.

DISOBEDIENCE THE PEOPLE OF ISRAEL

DEUT 9:13 Furthermore the LORD spake unto me, saying, I have seen this people, and, behold, it is a stiffnecked people: DEUT 9:14 Let me alone, that I may destroy them, and blot out their name from under heaven: and I will make of thee a nation mightier and greater than they. DEUT 9:15 So I turned and came down from the mount, and the mount burned with fire: and the two tables of the covenant were in my two hands. DEUT 9:16 And I looked, and, behold, ye had sinned against the LORD your God, and had made you a molten calf: ye had turned aside quickly out of the way which the LORD had commanded you. DEUT 9:17 And I took the two tables, and cast them out of my two hands, and brake them before your eyes. DEUT 9:18 And I fell down before the LORD, as at the first, forty days and forty nights: I did neither eat bread, nor drink water, because of all your sins which ye sinned, in doing wickedly in the sight of the LORD, to provoke him to anger. DEUT 9:19 For I was afraid of the anger and hot displeasure, wherewith the LORD was wroth against you to destroy you. But the LORD hearkened unto me at that time also. DEUT 9:20 And the LORD was very angry with Aaron to have destroyed him: and I prayed for Aaron also the same time.


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DEUT 10:10 And I stayed in the mount, according to the first time, forty days and forty nights; and the LORD hearkened unto me at that time also, and the LORD would not destroy thee. DEUT 10:11 And the LORD said unto me, Arise, take thy journey before the people, that they may go in and possess the land, which I sware unto their fathers to give unto them.

Forty days and forty nights Moses was on the mountain to receive the commandments, it was necessary for the people of Israel disobeyed God and made a molten calf. With so many miracles that God had already done before the eyes of the people, this waiting period was short enough for disobedience. Nowadays, we have seen a situation quite similar. Just as it took a little time (forty days) so that the people walked on the wrong path of idolatry, too little time was enough after the resurrection of Jesus Christ to the people who create and pass to worship images, whether of wood, metal, plaster etc.. At the beginning of the early church, it was thought about a quick lap of Jesus (as well as the people of Israel waited too rapid descent of the mountain of Moses). However, finding the people that Jesus took in return, chose to carve statues to delight the eyes and solace to the soul. JOSHUA GIVES Hebron to Caleb

JOSH 14:6 Then the children of Judah came unto Joshua in Gilgal: and Caleb the son of Jephunneh the Kenezite said unto him, Thou knowest the thing that the LORD said unto Moses the man of God concerning me and thee in Kadeshbarnea. JOSH 14:7 Forty years old was I when Moses the servant of the LORD sent me from Kadeshbarnea to espy out the land; and I brought him word again as it was in mine heart. JOSH 14:8 Nevertheless my brethren that went up with me made the heart of the people melt: but I wholly followed the LORD my God. JOSH 14:9 And Moses sware on that day, saying, Surely the land whereon thy feet have trodden shall be thine inheritance, and thy children's for ever, because thou hast wholly followed the LORD my God. JOSH 14:10 And now, behold, the LORD hath kept me alive, as he said, these forty and five years, even since the LORD spake this word unto Moses, while the children of Israel wandered in the wilderness: and


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now, lo, I am this day fourscore and five years old. JOSH 14:11 As yet I am as strong this day as I was in the day that Moses sent me: as my strength was then, even so is my strength now, for war, both to go out, and to come in. JOSH 14:12 Now therefore give me this mountain, whereof the LORD spake in that day; for thou heardest in that day how the Anakims were there, and that the cities were great and fenced: if so be the LORD will be with me, then I shall be able to drive them out, as the LORD said. JOSH 14:13 And Joshua blessed him, and gave unto Caleb the son of Jephunneh Hebron for an inheritance. JOSH 14:14 Hebron therefore became the inheritance of Caleb the son of Jephunneh the Kenezite unto this day, because that he wholly followed the LORD God of Israel. JOSH 14:15 And the name of Hebron before was Kirjatharba; which Arba was a great man among the Anakims. And the land had rest from war.

Here we have two periods, ie, the first in which Caleb waited forty years for Moses sent to spy the land of Hebron. Having persevered in following the Lord God, Moses swore at that moment, that land would be his (Caleb) and their children, an inheritance forever. In the second period, Caleb waited forty-five years after the oath of Moses, to receive for an inheritance the land of Hebron have continued to persevere in following the Lord God. DIVISION OF LAND TO THE PEOPLE When the division of land to the tribes of Israel, we note that appears in many verses also the number four, but let's see:

JOSH 19:7 Ain, Remmon, and Ether, and Ashan; four cities and their villages: JOSH 21:18 Anathoth with her suburbs, and Almon with her suburbs; four cities. JOSH 21:22 And Kibzaim with her suburbs, and Bethhoron with her suburbs; four cities. JOSH 21:24 Aijalon with her suburbs, Gathrimmon with her suburbs; four cities.


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JOSH 21:29 Jarmuth with her suburbs, Engannim with her suburbs; four cities. JOSH 21:35 Dimnah with her suburbs, Nahalal with her suburbs; four cities. JOSH 21:37 Kedemoth with her suburbs, and Mephaath with her suburbs; four cities. JOSH 21:39 Heshbon with her suburbs, Jazer with her suburbs; four cities in all.

PERIOD OF THE JUDGES Had the people of Israel to "wait" for a period of nearly four hundred and fifty years, that God would speak again through the prophet, and during this period was entrusted to the judges, the task of caring for these people.

ACTS 13:16 Then Paul stood up, and beckoning with his hand said, Men of Israel, and ye that fear God, give audience. ACTS 13:17 The God of this people of Israel chose our fathers, and exalted the people when they dwelt as strangers in the land of Egypt, and with an high arm brought he them out of it. ACTS 13:18 And about the time of forty years suffered he their manners in the wilderness. ACTS 13:19 And when he had destroyed seven nations in the land of Chanaan, he divided their land to them by lot. ACTS 13:20 And after that he gave unto them judges about the space of four hundred and fifty years, until Samuel the prophet. ACTS 13:21 And afterward they desired a king: and God gave unto them Saul the son of Cis, a man of the tribe of Benjamin, by the space of forty years.

OTHER REFERENCES IN THE BOOK OF JUDGES

JUDG 11:40 That the daughters of Israel went yearly to lament the daughter of Jephthah the Gileadite four days in a year.

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father's house to Bethlehemjudah, and was there four whole months.

JUDG 20:2 And the chief of all the people, even of all the tribes of Israel, presented themselves in the assembly of the people of God, four hundred thousand footmen that drew sword.

JUDG 20:17 And the men of Israel, beside Benjamin, were numbered four hundred thousand men that drew sword: all these were men of war.

JUDG 20:47 But six hundred men turned and fled to the wilderness unto the rock Rimmon, and abode in the rock Rimmon four months. JUDG 21:12 And they found among the inhabitants of Jabeshgilead four hundred young virgins, that had known no man by lying with any male: and they brought them unto the camp to Shiloh, which is in the land of Canaan. (

JEWISH PEOPLE IN THE HANDS OF PHILISTINES

JUDG 13:1 And the children of Israel did evil again in the sight of the LORD; and the LORD delivered them into the hand of the Philistines forty years.

We note here over a period of forty years, which is associated with the disobedience of Israel. Kingdom of Saul, David and Solomon

ACTS 13:21 And afterward they desired a king: and God gave unto them Saul the son of Cis, a man of the tribe of Benjamin, by the space of forty years. 2SAM 5:4 David was thirty years old when he began to reign, and he reigned forty years. 2SAM 15:7 And it came to pass after forty years, that Absalom said unto the king, I pray thee, let me go and pay my vow, which I have vowed unto the LORD, in Hebron. 1KINGS 2:11 And the days that David reigned over Israel were forty years: seven years reigned he in


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Hebron, and thirty and three years reigned he in Jerusalem. 1KINGS 11:42 And the time that Solomon reigned in Jerusalem over all Israel was forty years.

In biblical times, we notice not only the number four, as well as the presence of number three. Three kings were granted by God to Israel. Ruled each one, a forty-year period. CONSTRUCTION OF THE TEMPLE OF SOLOMON In the following verse, we have Solomon begins to build the Temple of the Lord from the fourth year of his reign.

1KINGS 6:1 And it came to pass in the four hundred and eightieth year after the children of Israel were come out of the land of Egypt, in the fourth year of Solomon's reign over Israel, in the month Zif, which is the second month, that he began to build the house of the LORD.

WALK THE PROPHET ELIAS

1KINGS 19:7 And the angel of the LORD came again the second time, and touched him, and said, Arise and eat; because the journey is too great for thee. 1KINGS 19:8 And he arose, and did eat and drink, and went in the strength of that meat forty days and forty nights unto Horeb the mount of God. 1KINGS 19:9 And he came thither unto a cave, and lodged there; and, behold, the word of the LORD came to him, and he said unto him, What doest thou here, Elijah?

REIGN OF Joash

2KINGS 12:1 In the seventh year of Jehu Jehoash began to reign; and forty years reigned he in Jerusalem. And his mother's name was Zibiah of Beersheba.


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Reign of Jeroboam

2KINGS 14:23 In the fifteenth year of Amaziah the son of Joash king of Judah Jeroboam the son of Joash king of Israel began to reign in Samaria, and reigned forty and one years.

FOUR MEN IN THE FURNACE

DAN 3:1 Nebuchadnezzar the king made an image of gold, whose height was threescore cubits, and the breadth thereof six cubits: he set it up in the plain of Dura, in the province of Babylon. DAN 3:2 Then Nebuchadnezzar the king sent to gather together the princes, the governors, and the captains, the judges, the treasurers, the counsellors, the sheriffs, and all the rulers of the provinces, to come to the dedication of the image which Nebuchadnezzar the king had set up. DAN 3:3 Then the princes, the governors, and captains, the judges, the treasurers, the counsellors, the sheriffs, and all the rulers of the provinces, were gathered together unto the dedication of the image that Nebuchadnezzar the king had set up; and they stood before the image that Nebuchadnezzar had set up. DAN 3:4 Then an herald cried aloud, To you it is commanded, O people, nations, and languages, DAN 3:5 That at what time ye hear the sound of the cornet, flute, harp, sackbut, psaltery, dulcimer, and all kinds of musick, ye fall down and worship the golden image that Nebuchadnezzar the king hath set up: DAN 3:6 And whoso falleth not down and worshippeth shall the same hour be cast into the midst of a burning fiery furnace. DAN 3:12 There are certain Jews whom thou hast set over the affairs of the province of Babylon, Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego; these men, O king, have not regarded thee: they serve not thy gods, nor worship the golden image which thou hast set up. DAN 3:20 And he commanded the most mighty men that were in his army to bind Shadrach, Meshach, and


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Abednego, and to cast them into the burning fiery furnace. DAN 3:24 Then Nebuchadnezzar the king was astonied, and rose up in haste, and spake, and said unto his counsellors, Did not we cast three men bound into the midst of the fire? They answered and said unto the king, True, O king. DAN 3:25 He answered and said, Lo, I see four men loose, walking in the midst of the fire, and they have no hurt; and the form of the fourth is like the Son of God. DAN 3:27 And the princes, governors, and captains, and the king's counsellors, being gathered together, saw these men, upon whose bodies the fire had no power, nor was an hair of their head singed, neither were their coats changed, nor the smell of fire had passed on them.

WORD OF THE LORD The ZACARIAS After four years have passed in the reign of Darius, the word of the Lord God appeared to the prophet Zechariah.

ZECH 7:1 And it came to pass in the fourth year of king Darius, that the word of the LORD came unto Zechariah in the fourth day of the ninth month, even in Chisleu;

A MALACHI OF JOHN THE BAPTIST In the book of the Old Testament, Malachi was the last prophet of God who rose to speak with his people. After Malachi, the people of Israel was not a prophet for a period of four years, until the Lord God then sent John the Baptist, to prepare the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ. PSALM 40

PS 40:1 I waited patiently for the LORD; and he inclined unto me, and heard my cry. PS 40:2 He brought me up also out of an horrible pit, out of the miry clay, and set my feet upon a rock, and established my goings. PS 40:3 And he hath put a new song in my mouth,


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even praise unto our God: many shall see it, and fear, and shall trust in the LORD.

THE NEW TESTAMENT

TEMPTATION OF JESUS

MT 4:2 And when he had fasted forty days and forty nights, he was afterward an hungred. MK 1:13 And he was there in the wilderness forty days, tempted of Satan; and was with the wild beasts; and the angels ministered unto him. LK 4:2 Being forty days tempted of the devil. And in those days he did eat nothing: and when they were ended, he afterward hungered.

After being baptized, Jesus had to wait a period of forty days, during which he was tempted by Satan, so that he could start his ministry preaching the gospel of the kingdom of God. PROPHECY OF JESUS In the following parable, Jesus makes reference to the period of four months, so prophetic, as well as in the period since the harvest has come, from Abraham to the present day, comprises a period of approximately four thousand years, which is also already reached the Kingdom of God.

JN 4:35 Say not ye, There are yet four months, and then cometh harvest? behold, I say unto you, Lift up your eyes, and look on the fields; for they are white already to harvest. REV 14:14 And I looked, and behold a white cloud, and upon the cloud one sat like unto the Son of man, having on his head a golden crown, and in his hand a sharp sickle. REV 14:15 And another angel came out of the temple, crying with a loud voice to him that sat on the cloud, Thrust in thy sickle, and reap: for the time is come for thee to reap; for the harvest of the earth is ripe.


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REV 14:16 And he that sat on the cloud thrust in his sickle on the earth; and the earth was reaped.

RESURRECTION OF LAZARUS When Jesus was told of the sickness of Lazarus, he knew that Lazarus would suffer and rise again after four days. Again the four appears in the Bible to show that this period corresponds to a waiting time until the Lord Jesus, to resurrect the glory of God, the Son of God might be glorified thereby.

JN 11:4 When Jesus heard that, he said, This sickness is not unto death, but for the glory of God, that the Son of God might be glorified thereby. JN 11:17 Then when Jesus came, he found that he had lain in the grave four days already. JN 11:39 Jesus said, Take ye away the stone. Martha, the sister of him that was dead, saith unto him, Lord, by this time he stinketh: for he hath been dead four days.

JESUS RISEN

ACTS 1:1 The former treatise have I made, O Theophilus, of all that Jesus began both to do and teach, ACTS 1:2 Until the day in which he was taken up, after that he through the Holy Ghost had given commandments unto the apostles whom he had chosen: ACTS 1:3 To whom also he shewed himself alive after his passion by many infallible proofs, being seen of them forty days, and speaking of the things pertaining to the kingdom of God: ACTS 1:4 And, being assembled together with them, commanded them that they should not depart from Jerusalem, but wait for the promise of the Father, which, saith he, ye have heard of me. ACTS 1:5 For John truly baptized with water; but ye shall be baptized with the Holy Ghost not many days hence.


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Chapter 2

NUMBER THREE

Obey the Lord

IN THE OLD TESTAMENT Adam-Abraham-Jesus For the period from Adam to Abraham, it took up about two thousand years. Likewise, from Abraham to Jesus, it was another two thousand years. Finally, from Jesus until today, also traveled to two thousand years. So our story is divided by God through these three men. The first, that God used to start your project. The second was when God revealed his promise, he had prepared for her children, a land to be handed to those who believe through faith. And finally, the third man to fulfill the promise and accomplishment, not only Jews but also for everyone who believes in him. We conclude that God in these three males (Adam, Abraham and Jesus), has prepared three periods of two thousand years, ending up his project, with the beginning of the seventh millennium. Abraham-Isaac-Jacob


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In the Holy Book, three men were raised by God in the Old Testament period, which was written for a story so much promise (made by our God) but also of faith demonstrated by these three men, whose design was later consummated with the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ. THREE MESSENGERS appeared to Abraham

GEN 18:1 And the LORD appeared unto him in the plains of Mamre: and he sat in the tent door in the heat of the day; GEN 18:2 And he lift up his eyes and looked, and, lo, three men stood by him: and when he saw them, he ran to meet them from the tent door, and bowed himself toward the ground, GEN 18:3 And said, My LORD, if now I have found favor in thy sight, pass not away, I pray thee, from thy servant: GEN 18:4 Let a little water, I pray you, be fetched, and wash your feet, and rest yourselves under the tree: GEN 18:5 And I will fetch a morsel of bread, and comfort ye your hearts; after that ye shall pass on: for therefore are ye come to your servant. And they said, So do, as thou hast said. GEN 18:6 And Abraham hastened into the tent unto Sarah, and said, Make ready quickly three measures of fine meal, knead it, and make cakes upon the hearth. GEN 18:7 And Abraham ran unto the herd, and fetched a calf tender and good, and gave it unto a young man; and he hasted to dress it. GEN 18:8 And he took butter, and milk, and the calf which he had dressed, and set it before them; and he stood by them under the tree, and they did eat. GEN 18:9 And they said unto him, Where is Sarah thy wife? And he said, Behold, in the tent. GEN 18:10 And he said, I will certainly return unto thee according to the time of life; and, lo, Sarah thy wife shall have a son. And Sarah heard it in the tent door, which was behind him.

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GEN 41:44 And Pharaoh said unto Joseph, I am Pharaoh, and without thee shall no man lift up his hand or foot in all the land of Egypt. GEN 41:45 And Pharaoh called Joseph's name Zaphnathpaaneah; and he gave him to wife Asenath the daughter of Potipherah priest of On. And Joseph went out over all the land of Egypt. GEN 41:46 And Joseph was thirty years old when he stood before Pharaoh king of Egypt. And Joseph went out from the presence of Pharaoh, and went throughout all the land of Egypt.

Weeping and mourning for Moses

DEUT 34:8 And the children of Israel wept for Moses in the plains of Moab thirty days: so the days of weeping and mourning for Moses were ended.

AGE OF DAVID

2SAM 5:4 David was thirty years old when he began to reign, and he reigned forty years.

PRAYER OF DANIEL Just as our Lord Jesus prayed for "three" times before being delivered to the prophet Daniel also prayed for three times the Lord God.

DAN 6:10 Now when Daniel knew that the writing was signed, he went into his house; and his windows being open in his chamber toward Jerusalem, he kneeled upon his knees three times a day, and prayed, and gave thanks before his God, as he did aforetime.

PROPHET JONAH AND JESUS

JON 1:17 Now the LORD had prepared a great fish to swallow up Jonah. And Jonah was in the belly of the fish three days and three nights.


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MT 12:40 For as Jonas was three days and three nights in the whale's belly; so shall the Son of man be three days and three nights in the heart of the earth.

THE LORD COMES ON MOUNT SINAI

EX 19:1 In the third month, when the children of Israel were gone forth out of the land of Egypt, the same day came they into the wilderness of Sinai. EX 19:2 For they were departed from Rephidim, and were come to the desert of Sinai, and had pitched in the wilderness; and there Israel camped before the mount. EX 19:3 And Moses went up unto God, and the LORD called unto him out of the mountain, saying, Thus shalt thou say to the house of Jacob, and tell the children of Israel; EX 19:4 Ye have seen what I did unto the Egyptians, and how I bare you on eagles' wings, and brought you unto myself. EX 19:5 Now therefore, if ye will obey my voice indeed, and keep my covenant, then ye shall be a peculiar treasure unto me above all people: for all the earth is mine: EX 19:6 And ye shall be unto me a kingdom of priests, and an holy nation. These are the words which thou shalt speak unto the children of Israel. EX 19:7 And Moses came and called for the elders of the people, and laid before their faces all these words which the LORD commanded him. EX 19:8 And all the people answered together, and said, All that the LORD hath spoken we will do. And Moses returned the words of the people unto the LORD. EX 19:9 And the LORD said unto Moses, Lo, I come unto thee in a thick cloud, that the people may hear when I speak with thee, and believe thee for ever. And Moses told the words of the people unto the LORD. EX 19:10 And the LORD said unto Moses, Go unto the people, and sanctify them to day and to morrow, and let them wash their clothes, EX 19:11 And be ready against the third day: for the third day the LORD will come down in the sight of all the people upon mount Sinai. EX 19:12 And thou shalt set bounds unto the people round about, saying, Take heed to yourselves, that ye


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go not up into the mount, or touch the border of it: whosoever toucheth the mount shall be surely put to death: EX 19:13 There shall not an hand touch it, but he shall surely be stoned, or shot through; whether it be beast or man, it shall not live: when the trumpet soundeth long, they shall come up to the mount. EX 19:14 And Moses went down from the mount unto the people, and sanctified the people; and they washed their clothes. EX 19:15 And he said unto the people, Be ready against the third day: come not at your wives. EX 19:16 And it came to pass on the third day in the morning, that there were thunders and lightnings, and a thick cloud upon the mount, and the voice of the trumpet exceeding loud; so that all the people that was in the camp trembled. EX 19:17 And Moses brought forth the people out of the camp to meet with God; and they stood at the nether part of the mount. EX 19:18 And mount Sinai was altogether on a smoke, because the LORD descended upon it in fire: and the smoke thereof ascended as the smoke of a furnace, and the whole mount quaked greatly. EX 19:19 And when the voice of the trumpet sounded long, and waxed louder and louder, Moses spake, and God answered him by a voice. EX 19:20 And the LORD came down upon mount Sinai, on the top of the mount: and the LORD called Moses up to the top of the mount; and Moses went up. EX 19:21 And the LORD said unto Moses, Go down, charge the people, lest they break through unto the LORD to gaze, and many of them perish. EX 19:22 And let the priests also, which come near to the LORD, sanctify themselves, lest the LORD break forth upon them. EX 19:23 And Moses said unto the LORD, The people cannot come up to mount Sinai: for thou chargedst us, saying, Set bounds about the mount, and sanctify it. EX 19:24 And the LORD said unto him, Away, get thee down, and thou shalt come up, thou, and Aaron with thee: but let not the priests and the people break through to come up unto the LORD, lest he break forth upon them. EX 19:25 So Moses went down unto the people, and spake unto them.


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Here we have a prophetic passage relating the time of order, with the return of Jesus Christ. Given the extent of the above text, highlight verses allow for better understanding:

EX 19:1 In the third month, when the children of Israel were gone forth out of the land of Egypt, the same day came they into the wilderness of Sinai. EX 19:3 And Moses went up unto God, and the LORD called unto him out of the mountain, saying, Thus shalt thou say to the house of Jacob, and tell the children of Israel; EX 19:5 Now therefore, if ye will obey my voice indeed, and keep my covenant, then ye shall be a peculiar treasure unto me above all people: for all the earth is mine: EX 19:6 And ye shall be unto me a kingdom of priests, and an holy nation. These are the words which thou shalt speak unto the children of Israel. EX 19:10 And the LORD said unto Moses, Go unto the people, and sanctify them to day and to morrow, and let them wash their clothes, EX 19:11 And be ready against the third day: for the third day the LORD will come down in the sight of all the people upon mount Sinai.

The first verse shows that in the third month of removal of Israel from Egypt, the Lord spoke to Moses for his people. We know that the people of Israel out of Egypt, corresponds exactly to the third month of the end of the slavery of that people. Also, the sending of our Lord Jesus Christ, was to release the children of God from the slavery of sin. Therefore, as occurred on that occasion, also in the third millennium the end of slavery of sin, the Lord will come to speak to his people. Already, the last two verses above also reveal a prophetic passage, inasmuch as the Lord commands the people to sanctify themselves in two days, washing their clothes, for the third day, be ready, when the Lord descends on the eyes of all people. The two days represent the two millennia, counted from the resurrection of Jesus (liberation from the bondage of sin) period in which the Lord has determined that your children wash their clothes, performing well in white robes before the Lord. Finally, the third day represents the third millennium, when the Lord descends in the eyes of all people.


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MT 25:31 When the Son of man shall come in his glory, and all the holy angels with him, then shall he sit upon the throne of his glory: MT 25:32 And before him shall be gathered all nations: and he shall separate them one from another, as a shepherd divideth his sheep from the goats:

THE LORD HEARS Hezekiah

2KINGS 20:1 In those days was Hezekiah sick unto death. And the prophet Isaiah the son of Amoz came to him, and said unto him, Thus saith the LORD, Set thine house in order; for thou shalt die, and not live. 2KINGS 20:2 Then he turned his face to the wall, and prayed unto the LORD, saying, 2KINGS 20:3 I beseech thee, O LORD, remember now how I have walked before thee in truth and with a perfect heart, and have done that which is good in thy sight. And Hezekiah wept sore. 2KINGS 20:4 And it came to pass, afore Isaiah was gone out into the middle court, that the word of the LORD came to him, saying, 2KINGS 20:5 Turn again, and tell Hezekiah the captain of my people, Thus saith the LORD, the God of David thy father, I have heard thy prayer, I have seen thy tears: behold, I will heal thee: on the third day thou shalt go up unto the house of the LORD.

ESTER BEFORE THE KING

ESTHER 5:1 Now it came to pass on the third day, that Esther put on her royal apparel, and stood in the inner court of the king's house, over against the king's house: and the king sat upon his royal throne in the royal house, over against the gate of the house.

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MT 2:1 Now when Jesus was born in Bethlehem of Judaea in the days of Herod the king, behold, there came wise men from the east to Jerusalem, MT 2:2 Saying, Where is he that is born King of the Jews? for we have seen his star in the east, and are come to worship him. MT 2:11 And when they were come into the house, they saw the young child with Mary his mother, and fell down, and worshipped him: and when they had opened their treasures, they presented unto him gifts; gold, and frankincense and myrrh.

BOY JESUS IN TEMPLE

LK 2:46 And it came to pass, that after three days they found him in the temple, sitting in the midst of the doctors, both hearing them, and asking them questions.

BAPTISM OF JESUS

LK 3:21 Now when all the people were baptized, it came to pass, that Jesus also being baptized, and praying, the heaven was opened, LK 3:22 And the Holy Ghost descended in a bodily shape like a dove upon him, and a voice came from heaven, which said, Thou art my beloved Son; in thee I am well pleased. LK 3:23 And Jesus himself began to be about thirty years of age, being (as was supposed) the son of Joseph, which was the son of Heli,

AGE OF JESUS Luke, Chapter 3, says that when Jesus began his ministry, was about 30 years. Since the book of John describes three until Easter in which Jesus goes to Jerusalem. Therefore, Jesus having about thirty years old when his baptism, added three more years of Passover, when Jesus went to Jerusalem, totaling 33 years until his death and resurrection. The number three appears at the moment so intense, that note was baptized at thirty years old, and was resurrected with thirty-three years. The most fascinating and revealing, is the number we get


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when we subtract the number of his death with his baptism (33-30), which will result in number three. So we have to Jesus from his baptism until his death and resurrection, by will and purpose of God, preached the gospel of the kingdom of God, for a period of three years. Although the Lord Jesus came to preach the gospel of the Kingdom of God, only about four thousand years after Adam's creation, said United was already prepared by the Father before the foundation of the world.

MT 25:34 Then shall the King say unto them on his right hand, Come, ye blessed of my Father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world:

TEMPTATION OF JESUS

MT 4:1 Then was Jesus led up of the spirit into the wilderness to be tempted of the devil. MT 4:2 And when he had fasted forty days and forty nights, he was afterward an hungred. MT 4:3 And when the tempter came to him, he said, If thou be the Son of God, command that these stones be made bread. MT 4:4 But he answered and said, It is written, Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of God. MT 4:5 Then the devil taketh him up into the holy city, and setteth him on a pinnacle of the temple, MT 4:6 And saith unto him, If thou be the Son of God, cast thyself down: for it is written, He shall give his angels charge concerning thee: and in their hands they shall bear thee up, lest at any time thou dash thy foot against a stone. MT 4:7 Jesus said unto him, It is written again, Thou shalt not tempt the Lord thy God. MT 4:8 Again, the devil taketh him up into an exceeding high mountain, and sheweth him all the kingdoms of the world, and the glory of them; MT 4:9 And saith unto him, All these things will I give thee, if thou wilt fall down and worship me. MT 4:10 Then saith Jesus unto him, Get thee hence, Satan: for it is written, Thou shalt worship the Lord thy God, and him only shalt thou serve.


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MT 4:11 Then the devil leaveth him, and, behold, angels came and ministered unto him.

During the period that remained in the desert Jesus was tempted three times by Satan. JESUS TURNS WATER INTO WINE

(JN 2:1 And the third day there was a marriage in Cana of Galilee; and the mother of Jesus was there: JN 2:2 And both Jesus was called, and his disciples, to the marriage. JN 2:3 And when they wanted wine, the mother of Jesus saith unto him, They have no wine. JN 2:4 Jesus saith unto her, Woman, what have I to do with thee? mine hour is not yet come. JN 2:5 His mother saith unto the servants, Whatsoever he saith unto you, do it. JN 2:6 And there were set there six waterpots of stone, after the manner of the purifying of the Jews, containing two or three firkins apiece. JN 2:7 Jesus saith unto them, Fill the waterpots with water. And they filled them up to the brim. JN 2:8 And he saith unto them, Draw out now, and bear unto the governor of the feast. And they bare it. JN 2:9 When the ruler of the feast had tasted the water that was made wine, and knew not whence it was: (but the servants which drew the water knew;) the governor of the feast called the bridegroom, JN 2:10 And saith unto him, Every man at the beginning doth set forth good wine; and when men have well drunk, then that which is worse: but thou hast kept the good wine until now. JN 2:11 This beginning of miracles did Jesus in Cana of Galilee, and manifested forth his glory; and his disciples believed on him.

Here we have a biblical passage, representing two prophetic situations, namely: a) Jesus predicts the supply of blood for the forgiveness of his sins, his resurrection on the third day, and b) around the third millennium. Where to read this passage, when Jesus said to his mother who was not yet her hour has come, understood to be referring not even be that moment when you should begin to manifest themselves as children of God, fulfilling his great miracles.


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However, two words in this passage changed my thinking: "Third" and "wine". Let us examine each one: * Wine: We know that the wine in the life of Jesus symbolizes his blood. Now his mother was asking our Lord Jesus when he served wine was not yet the time, a situation that came only occur in the Holy Supper, when Jesus part and serves the bread and wine to his apostles symbolizing his flesh and blood that was shed for many for the remission of sins. Arrival was not yet time to serve our Lord Jesus the wine (his blood). Note that although the Lord Jesus worked the miracle, turning water into wine, he himself did not serve, but determines to be taken to the master of ceremonies. Then, with the master of ceremonies tasted the wine, he directed his speech to the groom's party, saying that wine was better than that served at the beginning of the party. For the master of ceremonies, who offered the wine was the groom's party and not Jesus Christ. Our Lord Jesus came to earth to do exactly as the Father had appointed him, or he had to accomplish all the works that received the mission of the Father, hence the reason of the prophetic words spoken to his mother in Chapter 2, verse 4 when he said: "Woman, what have I to do with you?", ie he wanted to say that only serve wine at the time that the Father had ordered that this be done. * Day Three: As the Lord Jesus himself said, yet it was time to serve him wine, symbolizing his blood. This passage occurs just when Jesus begins his ministry, as the word says that from there, Jesus has begun its miracles. We also know that Jesus promoted its mission by preaching the gospel of God's Kingdom for a period of three years. Thus, we conclude that it would be necessary to spend a further three years that Jesus came to serve the wine at the Last Supper. That is why the expression third day at the beginning of Chapter 2 of John's gospel, that is, there is a prophetic sense in which the third day was the wedding at Cana in Galilee, would be the third year thereafter, so that wine was offered by him in the holy supper. Finally, the third day of the quoted verse also represents another prophetic revelation, because after his resurrection, we are currently in the third millennium in which Jesus will return to sit with him and partake of a new supper when he prophesied of the latter.

MT 26:27 And he took the cup, and gave thanks, and gave it to them, saying, Drink ye all of it; MT 26:28 For this is my blood of the new testament, which is shed for many for the remission of sins. MT 26:29 But I say unto you, I will not drink henceforth of this fruit of the vine, until that day when I drink it new with you in my Father's kingdom.

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MT 17:4 Then answered Peter, and said unto Jesus, Lord, it is good for us to be here: if thou wilt, let us make here three tabernacles; one for thee, and one for Moses, and one for Elias. LK 9:33 And it came to pass, as they departed from him, Peter said unto Jesus, Master, it is good for us to be here: and let us make three tabernacles; one for thee, and one for Moses, and one for Elias: not knowing what he said.

CROWD HEARS JESUS

MT 15:32 Then Jesus called his disciples unto him, and said, I have compassion on the multitude, because they continue with me now three days, and have nothing to eat: and I will not send them away fasting, lest they faint in the way. (MK 8:2 I have compassion on the multitude, because they have now been with me three days, and have nothing to eat:

The crowd followed when Jesus was not concerned with what he had to eat or drink, for the word that Jesus said was serving as food for people. Rebuilding of the temple

(JN 2:19 Jesus answered and said unto them, Destroy this temple, and in three days I will raise it up. JN 2:20 Then said the Jews, Forty and six years was this temple in building, and wilt thou rear it up in three days?

PARABLE OF YEAST

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Parable of robbers

LK 10:36 Which now of these three, thinkest thou, was neighbour unto him that fell among the thieves?

Parable of importunate friend

LK 11:5 And he said unto them, Which of you shall have a friend, and shall go unto him at midnight, and say unto him, Friend, lend me three loaves;

PARABLE OF THE FIG TREE

LK 13:7 Then said he unto the dresser of his vineyard, Behold, these three years I come seeking fruit on this fig tree, and find none: cut it down; why cumbereth it the ground?

This parable is a prophetic passage, because we are in the third millennium after the resurrection of Jesus, during which he was appointed to the fig tree gives its fruit will be cut after which the cast into the fire to be burned. Note that the parable shows that the vineyard had to constantly look for fruit on the fig tree and not always found. Jesus is all the time, hoping that their children will bear fruit, preaching the gospel of the kingdom of God and bringing the soul from darkness to light, thus attaining salvation. JESUS, MARY AND MARTHA - THREE MEETINGS MARIA RECOGNIZES THE LIGHT

LK 10:38 Now it came to pass, as they went, that he entered into a certain village: and a certain woman named Martha received him into her house. LK 10:39 And she had a sister called Mary, which also sat at Jesus' feet, and heard his word. LK 10:40 But Martha was cumbered about much serving, and came to him, and said, Lord, dost thou not care that my sister hath left me to serve alone? bid her therefore that she help me. LK 10:41 And Jesus answered and said unto her, Martha, Martha, thou art careful and troubled about


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MARIA DE JESUS TO TOE

(JN 11:28 And when she had so said, she went her way, and called Mary her sister secretly, saying, The Master is come, and calleth for thee. JN 11:29 As soon as she heard that, she arose quickly, and came unto him. JN 11:30 Now Jesus was not yet come into the town, but was in that place where Martha met him. JN 11:31 The Jews then which were with her in the house, and comforted her, when they saw Mary, that she rose up hastily and went out, followed her, saying, She goeth unto the grave to weep there. JN 11:32 Then when Mary was come where Jesus was, and saw him, she fell down at his feet, saying unto him, Lord, if thou hadst been here, my brother had not died. JN 11:33 When Jesus therefore saw her weeping, and the Jews also weeping which came with her, he groaned in the spirit, and was troubled. JN 11:34 And said, Where have ye laid him? They said unto him, Lord, come and see. JN 11:35 Jesus wept.

MARY ANOINTS JESUS’FEET

(JN 12:1 Then Jesus six days before the passover came to Bethany, where Lazarus was, which had been dead, whom he raised from the dead. JN 12:2 There they made him a supper; and Martha served: but Lazarus was one of them that sat at the table with him. JN 12:3 Then took Mary a pound of ointment of spikenard, very costly, and anointed the feet of Jesus, and wiped his feet with her hair: and the house was filled with the odour of the ointment.


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We find in the gospels, three times when describing the encounter between Jesus and Martha and her sister, Maria. In three games, something tells us the behavior of Mary: the three situations, unlike Martha, she throws herself at Jesus' feet, worshiping Him: at first to hear Him, the second to cry at his feet, and third time to anoint His feet with ointment of pure nard. This passage teaches us that during our life we will be in a certain way as Mary, namely a first contact with Jesus, hear His words will be amazed at his teachings with the truth that is in his word. However, since a second phase, which will happen on a busy day and cry at his feet, asking the console, give us strength to walk and move on. Finally, after being comforted, then we recognize that only God can give us life, and "perfume"more expensive than we have in our lives, will be to anoint His feet, worshiping and praising His Holy Name. JESUS THE WAY, THE TRUTH AND THE LIFE

JN 14:1 Let not your heart be troubled: ye believe in God, believe also in me. JN 14:2 In my Father's house are many mansions: if it were not so, I would have told you. I go to prepare a place for you. JN 14:3 And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again, and receive you unto myself; that where I am, there ye may be also. JN 14:4 And whither I go ye know, and the way ye know. JN 14:5 Thomas saith unto him, Lord, we know not whither thou goest; and how can we know the way? JN 14:6 Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me. JN 14:7 If ye had known me, ye should have known my Father also: and from henceforth ye know him, and have seen him. JN 14:8 Philip saith unto him, Lord, shew us the Father, and it sufficeth us. JN 14:9 Jesus saith unto him, Have I been so long time with you, and yet hast thou not known me, Philip? he that hath seen me hath seen the Father; and how sayest thou then, Shew us the Father? JN 14:10 Believest thou not that I am in the Father, and the Father in me? the words that I speak unto you I speak not of myself: but the Father that dwelleth in me, he doeth the works. JN 14:11 Believe me that I am in the Father, and the


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Father in me: or else believe me for the very works' sake. JN 14:12 Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that believeth on me, the works that I do shall he do also; and greater works than these shall he do; because I go unto my Father. JN 14:13 And whatsoever ye shall ask in my name, that will I do, that the Father may be glorified in the Son. JN 14:14 If ye shall ask any thing in my name, I will do it. JN 14:15 If ye love me, keep my commandments.

Jesus said to be three things: the way, the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through Him Jesus taught us that tight and narrow is the path that leads to the Kingdom of God. Through the words that Jesus made, we can reach an understanding of truth, since we believe that Jesus is the Son of God. Finally, he is the living bread that came down from heaven. Whoever eats this bread will never die but have eternal life. BETRAYAL OF JUDAS

MT 26:15 And said unto them, What will ye give me, and I will deliver him unto you? And they covenanted with him for thirty pieces of silver. ( (MT 27:9 Then was fulfilled that which was spoken by Jeremy the prophet, saying, And they took the thirty pieces of silver, the price of him that was valued, whom they of the children of Israel did value;

PETER DENIES JESUS

MT 26:34 Jesus said unto him, Verily I say unto thee, That this night, before the cock crow, thou shalt deny me thrice. (MK 14:30 And Jesus saith unto him, Verily I say unto thee, That this day, even in this night, before the cock crow twice, thou shalt deny me thrice. MT 26:75 And Peter remembered the word of Jesus, which said unto him, Before the cock crow, thou shalt deny me thrice. And he went out, and wept bitterly.

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MT 26:36 Then cometh Jesus with them unto a place called Gethsemane, and saith unto the disciples, Sit ye here, while I go and pray yonder. MT 26:37 And he took with him Peter and the two sons of Zebedee, and began to be sorrowful and very heavy. MT 26:38 Then saith he unto them, My soul is exceeding sorrowful, even unto death: tarry ye here, and watch with me. MT 26:39 And he went a little farther, and fell on his face, and prayed, saying, O my Father, if it be possible, let this cup pass from me: nevertheless not as I will, but as thou wilt. MT 26:40 And he cometh unto the disciples, and findeth them asleep, and saith unto Peter, What, could ye not watch with me one hour? MT 26:41 Watch and pray, that ye enter not into temptation: the spirit indeed is willing, but the flesh is weak. MT 26:42 He went away again the second time, and prayed, saying, O my Father, if this cup may not pass away from me, except I drink it, thy will be done. MT 26:43 And he came and found them asleep again: for their eyes were heavy. MT 26:44 And he left them, and went away again, and prayed the third time, saying the same words. MT 26:45 Then cometh he to his disciples, and saith unto them, Sleep on now, and take your rest: behold, the hour is at hand, and the Son of man is betrayed into the hands of sinners. MT 26:46 Rise, let us be going: behold, he is at hand that doth betray me.

Here, the three appear not only at a time, but in two. When Jesus came into the garden of Gethsemane, he told his disciples to wait there while he went to pray. Right now, it carries "three" apostles, Peter and the two sons of Zebedee. During the time when Jesus was praying, we have the prayer was held in three stages, described in verses 39, 42 and 44 of Chapter 26. In this passage, we learn something important in our Christian life, when Jesus teaches us to watch and pray always, lest we fall into temptation.

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Jesus before the Sanhedrin, Pilate, Herod

SANHEDRIN

LK 22:66 And as soon as it was day, the elders of the people and the chief priests and the scribes came together, and led him into their council, saying, LK 22:67 Art thou the Christ? tell us. And he said unto them, If I tell you, ye will not believe:

PILATE

LK 23:1 And the whole multitude of them arose, and led him unto Pilate. LK 23:2 And they began to accuse him, saying, We found this fellow perverting the nation, and forbidding to give tribute to Caesar, saying that he himself is Christ a King. LK 23:3 And Pilate asked him, saying, Art thou the King of the Jews? And he answered him and said, Thou sayest it.

HEROD

LK 23:8 And when Herod saw Jesus, he was exceeding glad: for he was desirous to see him of a long season, because he had heard many things of him; and he hoped to have seen some miracle done by him.

During the period in which Jesus is accused, he is brought before three authorities: the Sanhedrin, Pilate and King Herod, the Roman state representative. PILATE INSISTS ON FREE JESUS

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found no fault in this man touching those things whereof ye accuse him: LK 23:15 No, nor yet Herod: for I sent you to him; and, lo, nothing worthy of death is done unto him. LK 23:16 I will therefore chastise him, and release him. LK 23:17 (For of necessity he must release one unto them at the feast.) LK 23:18 And they cried out all at once, saying, Away with this man, and release unto us Barabbas: LK 23:19 (Who for a certain sedition made in the city, and for murder, was cast into prison.) LK 23:20 Pilate therefore, willing to release Jesus, spake again to them. LK 23:21 But they cried, saying, Crucify him, crucify him. LK 23:22 And he said unto them the third time, Why, what evil hath he done? I have found no cause of death in him: I will therefore chastise him, and let him go. LK 23:23 And they were instant with loud voices, requiring that he might be crucified. And the voices of them and of the chief priests prevailed. LK 23:24 And Pilate gave sentence that it should be as they required.

The Crucifixion

MK 15:22 And they bring him unto the place Golgotha, which is, being interpreted, The place of a skull. MK 15:23 And they gave him to drink wine mingled with myrrh: but he received it not. MK 15:24 And when they had crucified him, they parted his garments, casting lots upon them, what every man should take. MK 15:25 And it was the third hour, and they crucified him. MK 15:26 And the superscription of his accusation was written over, THE KING OF THE JEWS. MK 15:27 And with him they crucify two thieves; the one on his right hand, and the other on his left. MK 15:28 And the scripture was fulfilled, which saith, And he was numbered with the transgressors.

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three also followed his career here on earth. THREE CRUCIFIED

JN 19:17 And he bearing his cross went forth into a place called the place of a skull, which is called in the Hebrew Golgotha: JN 19:18 Where they crucified him, and two other with him, on either side one, and Jesus in the midst. JN 19:19 And Pilate wrote a title, and put it on the cross. And the writing was JESUS OF NAZARETH THE KING OF THE JEWS.

THREE HOURS OF DARKNESS ON THE GROUND

MT 27:45 Now from the sixth hour there was darkness over all the land unto the ninth hour. MT 27:46 And about the ninth hour Jesus cried with a loud voice, saying, Eli, Eli, lama sabachthani? that is to say, My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me? MT 27:47 Some of them that stood there, when they heard that, said, This man calleth for Elias. MT 27:48 And straightway one of them ran, and took a spunge, and filled it with vinegar, and put it on a reed, and gave him to drink. MT 27:49 The rest said, Let be, let us see whether Elias will come to save him. MT 27:50 Jesus, when he had cried again with a loud voice, yielded up the ghost. LK 23:44 And it was about the sixth hour, and there was a darkness over all the earth until the ninth hour. LK 23:45 And the sun was darkened, and the veil of the temple was rent in the midst. LK 23:46 And when Jesus had cried with a loud voice, he said, Father, into thy hands I commend my spirit: and having said thus, he gave up the ghost.

During the three hours of darkness over all the earth, we have for reading the scriptures during this period, God seems to have been absent for a short while the presence of Jesus, but never ceased to protect him. Our Lord Jesus said the phrase: "God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me?", Not because of their suffering, because


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He already knew everything that was going to pass us by. In those three hours of darkness over all the earth, departed from God, to show us (and teach us) that Jesus still on the cross, suffering, suffering a huge pain, moments before delivering his spirit, he also believe in the Father, saying perhaps the most important sentence of his work with the consummation of all that was done by the will of the Father, saying: "Father, into thy hands I commend my spirit." A lifetime without sin, throughout time, through temptations, snares of Satan, could consummate his work, when he gave his spirit to the Father, without spot or blemish, so that we could achieve eternal life. Thus we have with this passage, which at times we think we are missing God in our lives, we still believe, that just never forget these moments, our Father is even closer eye on us and for our souls and expecting a delivery Unconditional our spirit in your hands. RESURRECTION OF JESUS

MK 8:31 And he began to teach them, that the Son of man must suffer many things, and be rejected of the elders, and of the chief priests, and scribes, and be killed, and after three days rise again.

THREE EXPRESSIONS OF JESUS RISEN

(JN 21:14 This is now the third time that Jesus shewed himself to his disciples, after that he was risen from the dead.

It questioned three times PEDRO JESUS

JN 21:15 So when they had dined, Jesus saith to Simon Peter, Simon, son of Jonas, lovest thou me more than these? He saith unto him, Yea, Lord; thou knowest that I love thee. He saith unto him, Feed my lambs. JN 21:16 He saith to him again the second time, Simon, son of Jonas, lovest thou me? He saith unto him, Yea, Lord; thou knowest that I love thee. He saith


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unto him, Feed my sheep. JN 21:17 He saith unto him the third time, Simon, son of Jonas, lovest thou me? Peter was grieved because he said unto him the third time, Lovest thou me? And he said unto him, Lord, thou knowest all things; thou knowest that I love thee. Jesus saith unto him, Feed my sheep.

In these verses, the same Peter who denied Jesus three times before the cock crows, likewise confirmed in his words that he loved Jesus, when questioned by this. JESUS AND THE ACHIEVEMENT OF SCRIPTURE

LK 24:44 And he said unto them, These are the words which I spake unto you, while I was yet with you, that all things must be fulfilled, which were written in the law of Moses, and in the prophets, and in the psalms, concerning me.

Before the coming of our Lord Jesus, God in his purpose, which was prepared made the prophetic announcement of the coming of the Savior, at three times the Holy Bible: the Law of Moses, the prophets and finally through the Psalms. FAITH, HOPE AND LOVE THE

1COR 13:1 Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, and have not charity, I am become as sounding brass, or a tinkling cymbal. 1COR 13:2 And though I have the gift of prophecy, and understand all mysteries, and all knowledge; and though I have all faith, so that I could remove mountains, and have not charity, I am nothing. 1COR 13:3 And though I bestow all my goods to feed the poor, and though I give my body to be burned, and have not charity, it profiteth me nothing. 1COR 13:4 Charity suffereth long, and is kind; charity envieth not; charity vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up, 1COR 13:5 Doth not behave itself unseemly, seeketh not her own, is not easily provoked, thinketh no evil;


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1COR 13:6 Rejoiceth not in iniquity, but rejoiceth in the truth; 1COR 13:7 Beareth all things, believeth all things, hopeth all things, endureth all things. 1COR 13:8 Charity never faileth: but whether there be prophecies, they shall fail; whether there be tongues, they shall cease; whether there be knowledge, it shall vanish away. 1COR 13:9 For we know in part, and we prophesy in part. 1COR 13:10 But when that which is perfect is come, then that which is in part shall be done away. 1COR 13:11 When I was a child, I spake as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child: but when I became a man, I put away childish things. 1COR 13:12 For now we see through a glass, darkly; but then face to face: now I know in part; but then shall I know even as also I am known. 1COR 13:13 And now abideth faith, hope, charity, these three; but the greatest of these is charity.

As the word reveals to us, as we await the return of Jesus Christ, we must stand in faith, hope and love. Paul, however, teaches us that the three largest of these is love. And why? But while we wait for the return of our Lord Jesus Christ, by faith, hope and love we have in our hearts is that so we proceeded. However, when we stand before Jesus and to achieve the salvation of our souls, faith and hope will be exhausted, since these were necessary conditions for that to occur salvation. It will remain still in our hearts love, feeling that we will continue practicing even in the presence of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Kingdom of God. TRIPLE THE TESTIMONY ABOUT CHRIST

1JN 5:6 This is he that came by water and blood, even Jesus Christ; not by water only, but by water and blood. And it is the Spirit that beareth witness, because the Spirit is truth. 1JN 5:7 For there are three that bear record in heaven, the Father, the Word, and the Holy Ghost: and these three are one. 1JN 5:8 And there are three that bear witness in earth, the Spirit, and the water, and the blood: and these three agree in one. 1JN 5:9 If we receive the witness of men, the witness of God is greater: for this is the witness of God which


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he hath testified of his Son. 1JN 5:10 He that believeth on the Son of God hath the witness in himself: he that believeth not God hath made him a liar; because he believeth not the record that God gave of his Son. 1JN 5:11 And this is the record, that God hath given to us eternal life, and this life is in his Son. 1JN 5:12 He that hath the Son hath life; and he that hath not the Son of God hath not life.

THREE PRAYERS DANIEL

DAN 6:7 All the presidents of the kingdom, the governors, and the princes, the counsellors, and the captains, have consulted together to establish a royal statute, and to make a firm decree, that whosoever shall ask a petition of any God or man for thirty days, save of thee, O king, he shall be cast into the den of lions. DAN 6:8 Now, O king, establish the decree, and sign the writing, that it be not changed, according to the law of the Medes and Persians, which altereth not. DAN 6:9 Wherefore king Darius signed the writing and the decree. DAN 6:10 Now when Daniel knew that the writing was signed, he went into his house; and his windows being open in his chamber toward Jerusalem, he kneeled upon his knees three times a day, and prayed, and gave thanks before his God, as he did aforetime.

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MT 26:36 Then cometh Jesus with them unto a place called Gethsemane, and saith unto the disciples, Sit ye here, while I go and pray yonder. MT 26:37 And he took with him Peter and the two sons of Zebedee, and began to be sorrowful and very heavy. MT 26:38 Then saith he unto them, My soul is exceeding sorrowful, even unto death: tarry ye here, and watch with me. MT 26:39 And he went a little farther, and fell on his


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face, and prayed, saying, O my Father, if it be possible, let this cup pass from me: nevertheless not as I will, but as thou wilt. MT 26:40 And he cometh unto the disciples, and findeth them asleep, and saith unto Peter, What, could ye not watch with me one hour? MT 26:41 Watch and pray, that ye enter not into temptation: the spirit indeed is willing, but the flesh is weak. MT 26:42 He went away again the second time, and prayed, saying, O my Father, if this cup may not pass away from me, except I drink it, thy will be done. MT 26:43 And he came and found them asleep again: for their eyes were heavy. MT 26:44 And he left them, and went away again, and prayed the third time, saying the same words. MT 26:45 Then cometh he to his disciples, and saith unto them, Sleep on now, and take your rest: behold, the hour is at hand, and the Son of man is betrayed into the hands of sinners. MT 26:46 Rise, let us be going: behold, he is at hand that doth betray me.

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2COR 12:7 And lest I should be exalted above measure through the abundance of the revelations, there was given to me a thorn in the flesh, the messenger of Satan to buffet me, lest I should be exalted above measure. 2COR 12:8 For this thing I besought the Lord thrice, that it might depart from me. 2COR 12:9 And he said unto me, My grace is sufficient for thee: for my strength is made perfect in weakness. Most gladly therefore will I rather glory in my infirmities, that the power of Christ may rest upon me. 2COR 12:10 Therefore I take pleasure in infirmities, in reproaches, in necessities, in persecutions, in distresses for Christ's sake: for when I am weak, then am I strong.


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Chapter 3

THE NUMBER SEVEN

" GEN 2:3 And God blessed the seventh day, and sanctified it: because that in it he had rested

from all his work which God created and made. "

IN THE OLD TESTAMENT

CREATION

(GEN 2:2 And on the seventh day God ended his work which he had made; and he rested on the seventh day from all his work which he had made. GEN 2:3 And God blessed the seventh day, and sanctified it: because that in it he had rested from all his work which God created and made.


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According to the whole purpose of God, the seven were chosen by the Lord as the number of perfection, when everything is ready and finished as the Divine creation, then seven is blessed and sanctified by God, that there is no rest of the Lord. Why everything is under seven, is a mystery that belongs only to the Father known. We address here two numbers found in the Holy Bible that once added, will complete the work of God, ie, the number seven. The first issue we studied was four, because we demonstrated how the Holy Book lists this number as a waiting period of preparation, trial. For the very reason for being, their presence proved so intense in the Old Testament. Then we made an approach through the number three as this number has followed throughout the course of our Lord Jesus Christ. Exceeding the period of waiting, preparation, then comes a period of consummation, completion of a work, when it presents itself to the three, plus the four, is achieved perfection of God's work, which is seven. FLOOD

GEN 7:1 And the LORD said unto Noah, Come thou and all thy house into the ark; for thee have I seen righteous before me in this generation. GEN 7:2 Of every clean beast thou shalt take to thee by sevens, the male and his female: and of beasts that are not clean by two, the male and his female. GEN 7:3 Of fowls also of the air by sevens, the male and the female; to keep seed alive upon the face of all the earth. GEN 7:4 For yet seven days, and I will cause it to rain upon the earth forty days and forty nights; and every living substance that I have made will I destroy from off the face of the earth. (GEN 7:10 And it came to pass after seven days, that the waters of the flood were upon the earth. GEN 8:4 And the ark rested in the seventh month, on the seventeenth day of the month, upon the mountains of Ararat. GEN 8:10 And he stayed yet other seven days; and again he sent forth the dove out of the ark; GEN 8:12 And he stayed yet other seven days; and sent forth the dove; which returned not again unto him any more.

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GEN 29:18 And Jacob loved Rachel; and said, I will serve thee seven years for Rachel thy younger daughter. GEN 29:27 Fulfil her week, and we will give thee this also for the service which thou shalt serve with me yet seven other years. GEN 29:30 And he went in also unto Rachel, and he loved also Rachel more than Leah, and served with him yet seven other years.

THE MEETING of Jacob and Esau

GEN 33:1 And Jacob lifted up his eyes, and looked, and, behold, Esau came, and with him four hundred men. And he divided the children unto Leah, and unto Rachel, and unto the two handmaids. GEN 33:2 And he put the handmaids and their children foremost, and Leah and her children after, and Rachel and Joseph hindermost. GEN 33:3 And he passed over before them, and bowed himself to the ground seven times, until he came near to his brother. GEN 33:4 And Esau ran to meet him, and embraced him, and fell on his neck, and kissed him: and they wept.

THE DREAMS OF PHARAOH

GEN 41:1 And it came to pass at the end of two full years, that Pharaoh dreamed: and, behold, he stood by the river. GEN 41:2 And, behold, there came up out of the river seven well favored kine and fatfleshed; and they fed in a meadow. GEN 41:3 And, behold, seven other kine came up after them out of the river, ill favored and leanfleshed; and stood by the other kine upon the brink of the river. GEN 41:4 And the ill favored and leanfleshed kine did eat up the seven well favored and fat kine. So Pharaoh awoke. GEN 41:5 And he slept and dreamed the second time: and, behold, seven ears of corn came up upon one stalk, rank and good. GEN 41:6 And, behold, seven thin ears and blasted


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with the east wind sprung up after them. GEN 41:7 And the seven thin ears devoured the seven rank and full ears. And Pharaoh awoke, and, behold, it was a dream.

INSTITUTION OF EASTER EX 12:15 Seven days shall ye eat unleavened bread; even the first day ye shall put away leaven out of your houses: for whosoever eateth leavened bread from the first day until the seventh day, that soul shall be cut off from Israel. EX 12:16 And in the first day there shall be an holy convocation, and in the seventh day there shall be an holy convocation to you; no manner of work shall be done in them, save that which every man must eat, that only may be done of you. EX 12:17 And ye shall observe the feast of unleavened bread; for in this selfsame day have I brought your armies out of the land of Egypt: therefore shall ye observe this day in your generations by an ordinance for ever. EX 12:18 In the first month, on the fourteenth day of the month at even, ye shall eat unleavened bread, until the one and twentieth day of the month at even. EX 12:19 Seven days shall there be no leaven found in your houses: for whosoever eateth that which is leavened, even that soul shall be cut off from the congregation of Israel, whether he be a stranger, or born in the land. THE SEVENTY ELDERS

EX 24:1 And he said unto Moses, Come up unto the LORD, thou, and Aaron, Nadab, and Abihu, and seventy of the elders of Israel; and worship ye afar off.

THE CHANDELIER

EX 25:31 And thou shalt make a candlestick of pure gold: of beaten work shall the candlestick be made: his shaft, and his branches, his bowls, his knops, and his flowers, shall be of the same.


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EX 25:32 And six branches shall come out of the sides of it; three branches of the candlestick out of the one side, and three branches of the candlestick out of the other side: EX 25:37 And thou shalt make the seven lamps thereof: and they shall light the lamps thereof, that they may give light over against it. EX 25:38 And the tongs thereof, and the snuffdishes thereof, shall be of pure gold.

CEREMONY OF CONSECRATION

EX 29:29 And the holy garments of Aaron shall be his sons' after him, to be anointed therein, and to be consecrated in them. EX 29:30 And that son that is priest in his stead shall put them on seven days, when he cometh into the tabernacle of the congregation to minister in the holy place. EX 29:31 And thou shalt take the ram of the consecration, and seethe his flesh in the holy place. EX 29:32 And Aaron and his sons shall eat the flesh of the ram, and the bread that is in the basket by the door of the tabernacle of the congregation. EX 29:33 And they shall eat those things wherewith the atonement was made, to consecrate and to sanctify them: but a stranger shall not eat thereof, because they are holy. EX 29:34 And if ought of the flesh of the consecrations, or of the bread, remain unto the morning, then thou shalt burn the remainder with fire: it shall not be eaten, because it is holy. EX 29:35 And thus shalt thou do unto Aaron, and to his sons, according to all things which I have commanded thee: seven days shalt thou consecrate them. EX 29:36 And thou shalt offer every day a bullock for a sin offering for atonement: and thou shalt cleanse the altar, when thou hast made an atonement for it, and thou shalt anoint it, to sanctify it. EX 29:37 Seven days thou shalt make an atonement for the altar, and sanctify it; and it shall be an altar most holy: whatsoever toucheth the altar shall be holy.


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LEPROSY

LEV 13:4 If the bright spot be white in the skin of his flesh, and in sight be not deeper than the skin, and the hair thereof be not turned white; then the priest shall shut up him that hath the plague seven days: LEV 13:5 And the priest shall look on him the seventh day: and, behold, if the plague in his sight be at a stay, and the plague spread not in the skin; then the priest shall shut him up seven days more: LEV 13:6 And the priest shall look on him again the seventh day: and, behold, if the plague be somewhat dark, and the plague spread not in the skin, the priest shall pronounce him clean: it is but a scab: and he shall wash his clothes, and be clean.

SATURDAY'S

LEV 23:1 And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying, LEV 23:2 Speak unto the children of Israel, and say unto them, Concerning the feasts of the LORD, which ye shall proclaim to be holy convocations, even these are my feasts. LEV 23:3 Six days shall work be done: but the seventh day is the sabbath of rest, an holy convocation; ye shall do no work therein: it is the sabbath of the LORD in all your dwellings.

PENTECOST OF JEWISH

LEV 23:15 And ye shall count unto you from the morrow after the sabbath, from the day that ye brought the sheaf of the wave offering; seven sabbaths shall be complete: LEV 23:16 Even unto the morrow after the seventh sabbath shall ye number fifty days; and ye shall offer a new meat offering unto the LORD. LEV 23:17 Ye shall bring out of your habitations two wave loaves of two tenth deals; they shall be of fine flour; they shall be baked with leaven; they are the firstfruits unto the LORD.


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LEV 23:18 And ye shall offer with the bread seven lambs without blemish of the first year, and one young bullock, and two rams: they shall be for a burnt offering unto the LORD, with their meat offering, and their drink offerings, even an offering made by fire, of sweet savor unto the LORD. LEV 23:19 Then ye shall sacrifice one kid of the goats for a sin offering, and two lambs of the first year for a sacrifice of peace offerings.

THE DAY OF ATONEMENT

LEV 23:23 And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying, LEV 23:24 Speak unto the children of Israel, saying, In the seventh month, in the first day of the month, shall ye have a sabbath, a memorial of blowing of trumpets, an holy convocation. LEV 23:25 Ye shall do no servile work therein: but ye shall offer an offering made by fire unto the LORD. LEV 23:26 And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying, LEV 23:27 Also on the tenth day of this seventh month there shall be a day of atonement: it shall be an holy convocation unto you; and ye shall afflict your souls, and offer an offering made by fire unto the LORD. LEV 23:28 And ye shall do no work in that same day: for it is a day of atonement, to make an atonement for you before the LORD your God. LEV 23:29 For whatsoever soul it be that shall not be afflicted in that same day, he shall be cut off from among his people. LEV 23:30 And whatsoever soul it be that doeth any work in that same day, the same soul will I destroy from among his people. LEV 23:31 Ye shall do no manner of work: it shall be a statute for ever throughout your generations in all your dwellings. LEV 23:32 It shall be unto you a sabbath of rest, and ye shall afflict your souls: in the ninth day of the month at even, from even unto even, shall ye celebrate your sabbath.

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LEV 23:33 And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying, LEV 23:34 Speak unto the children of Israel, saying, The fifteenth day of this seventh month shall be the feast of tabernacles for seven days unto the LORD. LEV 23:35 On the first day shall be an holy convocation: ye shall do no servile work therein. LEV 23:36 Seven days ye shall offer an offering made by fire unto the LORD: on the eighth day shall be an holy convocation unto you; and ye shall offer an offering made by fire unto the LORD: it is a solemn assembly; and ye shall do no servile work therein. LEV 23:37 These are the feasts of the LORD, which ye shall proclaim to be holy convocations, to offer an offering made by fire unto the LORD, a burnt offering, and a meat offering, a sacrifice, and drink offerings, every thing upon his day: LEV 23:38 Beside the sabbaths of the LORD, and beside your gifts, and beside all your vows, and beside all your freewill offerings, which ye give unto the LORD. LEV 23:39 Also in the fifteenth day of the seventh month, when ye have gathered in the fruit of the land, ye shall keep a feast unto the LORD seven days: on the first day shall be a sabbath, and on the eighth day shall be a sabbath. LEV 23:40 And ye shall take you on the first day the boughs of goodly trees, branches of palm trees, and the boughs of thick trees, and willows of the brook; and ye shall rejoice before the LORD your God seven days. LEV 23:41 And ye shall keep it a feast unto the LORD seven days in the year. It shall be a statute for ever in your generations: ye shall celebrate it in the seventh month. LEV 23:42 Ye shall dwell in booths seven days; all that are Israelites born shall dwell in booths: LEV 23:43 That your generations may know that I made the children of Israel to dwell in booths, when I brought them out of the land of Egypt: I am the LORD your God. LEV 23:44 And Moses declared unto the children of Israel the feasts of the LORD.

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LEV 25:1 And the LORD spake unto Moses in mount Sinai, saying, LEV 25:2 Speak unto the children of Israel, and say unto them, When ye come into the land which I give you, then shall the land keep a sabbath unto the LORD. LEV 25:3 Six years thou shalt sow thy field, and six years thou shalt prune thy vineyard, and gather in the fruit thereof; LEV 25:4 But in the seventh year shall be a sabbath of rest unto the land, a sabbath for the LORD: thou shalt neither sow thy field, nor prune thy vineyard. LEV 25:5 That which groweth of its own accord of thy harvest thou shalt not reap, neither gather the grapes of thy vine undressed: for it is a year of rest unto the land. LEV 25:6 And the sabbath of the land shall be meat for you; for thee, and for thy servant, and for thy maid, and for thy hired servant, and for thy stranger that sojourneth with thee. LEV 25:7 And for thy cattle, and for the beast that are in thy land, shall all the increase thereof be meat.

This prophetic passage is related to the seventh day and seventh millennium, both also of "rest for the Lord. We will later in a separate chapter analysis of this issue, analyzing it as God-given purpose for the return of our Lord Jesus Christ. THE YEAR OF JUBILEE

LEV 25:8 And thou shalt number seven sabbaths of years unto thee, seven times seven years; and the space of the seven sabbaths of years shall be unto thee forty and nine years. LEV 25:9 Then shalt thou cause the trumpet of the jubilee to sound on the tenth day of the seventh month, in the day of atonement shall ye make the trumpet sound throughout all your land. LEV 25:10 And ye shall hallow the fiftieth year, and proclaim liberty throughout all the land unto all the inhabitants thereof: it shall be a jubilee unto you; and ye shall return every man unto his possession, and ye shall return every man unto his family. LEV 25:11 A jubilee shall that fiftieth year be unto you: ye shall not sow, neither reap that which groweth


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of itself in it, nor gather the grapes in it of thy vine undressed. LEV 25:12 For it is the jubilee; it shall be holy unto you: ye shall eat the increase thereof out of the field. LEV 25:13 In the year of this jubilee ye shall return every man unto his possession.

THE PUNISHMENT

LEV 26:18 And if ye will not yet for all this hearken unto me, then I will punish you seven times more for your sins. LEV 26:21 And if ye walk contrary unto me, and will not hearken unto me; I will bring seven times more plagues upon you according to your sins. LEV 26:24 Then will I also walk contrary unto you, and will punish you yet seven times for your sins. (LEV 26:28 Then I will walk contrary unto you also in fury; and I, even I, will chastise you seven times for your sins.

SEVEN NATIONS

DEUT 7:1 When the LORD thy God shall bring thee into the land whither thou goest to possess it, and hath cast out many nations before thee, the Hittites, and the Girgashites, and the Amorites, and the Canaanites, and the Perizzites, and the Hivites, and the Jebusites, seven nations greater and mightier than thou; DEUT 7:2 And when the LORD thy God shall deliver them before thee; thou shalt smite them, and utterly destroy them; thou shalt make no covenant with them, nor show mercy unto them: DEUT 7:3 Neither shalt thou make marriages with them; thy daughter thou shalt not give unto his son, nor his daughter shalt thou take unto thy son. DEUT 7:4 For they will turn away thy son from following me, that they may serve other gods: so will the anger of the LORD be kindled against you, and destroy thee suddenly. DEUT 7:5 But thus shall ye deal with them; ye shall destroy their altars, and break down their images, and cut down their groves, and burn their graven


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images with fire. DEUT 7:6 For thou art an holy people unto the LORD thy God: the LORD thy God hath chosen thee to be a special people unto himself, above all people that are upon the face of the earth.

WAIVER OF THE YEAR

DEUT 15:1 At the end of every seven years thou shalt make a release. DEUT 15:2 And this is the manner of the release: Every creditor that lendeth ought unto his neighbor shall release it; he shall not exact it of his neighbor, or of his brother; because it is called the LORD's release. DEUT 15:3 Of a foreigner thou mayest exact it again: but that which is thine with thy brother thine hand shall release; DEUT 15:4 Save when there shall be no poor among you; for the LORD shall greatly bless thee in the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee for an inheritance to possess it: DEUT 15:5 Only if thou carefully hearken unto the voice of the LORD thy God, to observe to do all these commandments which I command thee this day. DEUT 15:6 For the LORD thy God blesseth thee, as he promised thee: and thou shalt lend unto many nations, but thou shalt not borrow; and thou shalt reign over many nations, but they shall not reign over thee.

DESTRUCTION OF JERICHO

JOSH 6:1 Now Jericho was straitly shut up because of the children of Israel: none went out, and none came in. JOSH 6:2 And the LORD said unto Joshua, See, I have given into thine hand Jericho, and the king thereof, and the mighty men of valor. JOSH 6:3 And ye shall compass the city, all ye men of war, and go round about the city once. Thus shalt thou do six days.


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JOSH 6:4 And seven priests shall bear before the ark seven trumpets of rams' horns: and the seventh day ye shall compass the city seven times, and the priests shall blow with the trumpets. JOSH 6:5 And it shall come to pass, that when they make a long blast with the ram's horn, and when ye hear the sound of the trumpet, all the people shall shout with a great shout; and the wall of the city shall fall down flat, and the people shall ascend up every man straight before him.

REST OF LAND DIVIDED INTO SEVEN PARTS

JOSH 18:1 And the whole congregation of the children of Israel assembled together at Shiloh, and set up the tabernacle of the congregation there. And the land was subdued before them. JOSH 18:2 And there remained among the children of Israel seven tribes, which had not yet received their inheritance. JOSH 18:3 And Joshua said unto the children of Israel, How long are ye slack to go to possess the land, which the LORD God of your fathers hath given you? JOSH 18:4 Give out from among you three men for each tribe: and I will send them, and they shall rise, and go through the land, and describe it according to the inheritance of them; and they shall come again to me. JOSH 18:5 And they shall divide it into seven parts: Judah shall abide in their coast on the south, and the house of Joseph shall abide in their coasts on the north. JOSH 18:6 Ye shall therefore describe the land into seven parts, and bring the description hither to me, that I may cast lots for you here before the LORD our God.

Oppression of Midian

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Israel made them the dens which are in the mountains, and caves, and strong holds.

PSALMS AND PROVERBS

PS 12:6 The words of the LORD are pure words: as silver tried in a furnace of earth, purified seven times. PS 79:12 And render unto our neighbours sevenfold into their bosom their reproach, wherewith they have reproached thee, O Lord. PS 90:10 The days of our years are threescore years and ten; and if by reason of strength they be fourscore years, yet is their strength labour and sorrow; for it is soon cut off, and we fly away. PS 119:164 Seven times a day do I praise thee because of thy righteous judgments. PROV 6:31 But if he be found, he shall restore sevenfold; he shall give all the substance of his house PROV 9:1 Wisdom hath builded her house, she hath hewn out her seven pillars: PROV 24:16 For a just man falleth seven times, and riseth up again: but the wicked shall fall into mischief. PROV 26:16 The sluggard is wiser in his own conceit than seven men that can render a reason. PROV 26:25 When he speaketh fair, believe him not: for there are seven abominations in his heart.

JOB AND GOD

JOB 1:2 And there were born unto him seven sons and three daughters. JOB 1:3 His substance also was seven thousand sheep, and three thousand camels, and five hundred yoke of oxen, and five hundred she asses, and a very great household; so that this man was the greatest of all the men of the east. JOB 2:13 So they sat down with him upon the ground seven days and seven nights, and none spake a word unto him: for they saw that his grief was very great. JOB 9:9 Which maketh Arcturus, Orion, and Pleiades, and the chambers of the south. JOB 38:31 Canst thou bind the sweet influences of Pleiades, or loose the bands of Orion?


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JOB 42:8 Therefore take unto you now seven bullocks and seven rams, and go to my servant Job, and offer up for yourselves a burnt offering; and my servant Job shall pray for you: for him will I accept: lest I deal with you after your folly, in that ye have not spoken of me the thing which is right, like my servant Job. JOB 42:13 He had also seven sons and three daughters.

ISAIAH

IS 4:1 And in that day seven women shall take hold of one man, saying, We will eat our own bread, and wear our own apparel: only let us be called by thy name, to take away our reproach. IS 11:15 And the LORD shall utterly destroy the tongue of the Egyptian sea; and with his mighty wind shall he shake his hand over the river, and shall smite it in the seven streams, and make men go over dryshod. IS 16:7 Therefore shall Moab howl for Moab, every one shall howl: for the foundations of Kirhareseth shall ye mourn; surely they are stricken. IS 23:15 And it shall come to pass in that day, that Tyre shall be forgotten seventy years, according to the days of one king: after the end of seventy years shall Tyre sing as an harlot. IS 23:17 And it shall come to pass after the end of seventy years, that the LORD will visit Tyre, and she shall turn to her hire, and shall commit fornication with all the kingdoms of the world upon the face of the earth. IS 30:26 Moreover the light of the moon shall be as the light of the sun, and the light of the sun shall be sevenfold, as the light of seven days, in the day that the LORD bindeth up the breach of his people, and healeth the stroke of their wound.

Jeremiah

JER 15:9 She that hath borne seven languisheth: she hath given up the ghost; her sun is gone down while it was yet day: she hath been ashamed and confounded: and the residue of them will I deliver to the sword before their enemies, saith the LORD.


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JER 25:11 And this whole land shall be a desolation, and an astonishment; and these nations shall serve the king of Babylon seventy years. JER 25:12 And it shall come to pass, when seventy years are accomplished, that I will punish the king of Babylon, and that nation, saith the LORD, for their iniquity, and the land of the Chaldeans, and will make it perpetual desolations. JER 29:10 For thus saith the LORD, That after seventy years be accomplished at Babylon I will visit you, and perform my good word toward you, in causing you to return to this place. JER 34:14 At the end of seven years let ye go every man his brother an Hebrew, which hath been sold unto thee; and when he hath served thee six years, thou shalt let him go free from thee: but your fathers hearkened not unto me, neither inclined their ear. JER 52:25 He took also out of the city an eunuch, which had the charge of the men of war; and seven men of them that were near the king's person, which were found in the city; and the principal scribe of the host, who mustered the people of the land; and threescore men of the people of the land, that were found in the midst of the city. JER 52:30 In the three and twentieth year of Nebuchadrezzar Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard carried away captive of the Jews seven hundred forty and five persons: all the persons were four thousand and six hundred.

Ezekiel

EZEK 3:15 Then I came to them of the captivity at Telabib, that dwelt by the river of Chebar, and I sat where they sat, and remained there astonished among them seven days. EZEK 3:16 And it came to pass at the end of seven days, that the word of the LORD came unto me, saying, EZEK 8:11 And there stood before them seventy men of the ancients of the house of Israel, and in the midst of them stood Jaazaniah the son of Shaphan, with every man his censer in his hand; and a thick cloud of incense went up.


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EZEK 29:17 And it came to pass in the seven and twentieth year, in the first month, in the first day of the month, the word of the LORD came unto me, saying, EZEK 30:20 And it came to pass in the eleventh year, in the first month, in the seventh day of the month, that the word of the LORD came unto me, saying, EZEK 39:9 And they that dwell in the cities of Israel shall go forth, and shall set on fire and burn the weapons, both the shields and the bucklers, the bows and the arrows, and the handstaves, and the spears, and they shall burn them with fire seven years: EZEK 39:12 And seven months shall the house of Israel be burying of them, that they may cleanse the land. EZEK 39:14 And they shall sever out men of continual employment, passing through the land to bury with the passengers those that remain upon the face of the earth, to cleanse it: after the end of seven months shall they search. EZEK 40:22 And their windows, and their arches, and their palm trees, were after the measure of the gate that looketh toward the east; and they went up unto it by seven steps; and the arches thereof were before them. EZEK 40:26 And there were seven steps to go up to it, and the arches thereof were before them: and it had palm trees, one on this side, and another on that side, upon the posts thereof. EZEK 41:3 Then went he inward, and measured the post of the door, two cubits; and the door, six cubits; and the breadth of the door, seven cubits. EZEK 41:12 Now the building that was before the separate place at the end toward the west was seventy cubits broad; and the wall of the building was five cubits thick round about, and the length thereof ninety cubits. EZEK 43:25 Seven days shalt thou prepare every day a goat for a sin offering: they shall also prepare a young bullock, and a ram out of the flock, without blemish. EZEK 43:26 Seven days shall they purge the altar and purify it; and they shall consecrate themselves. EZEK 44:26 And after he is cleansed, they shall reckon unto him seven days.


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EZEK 45:21 In the first month, in the fourteenth day of the month, ye shall have the passover, a feast of seven days; unleavened bread shall be eaten. EZEK 45:23 And seven days of the feast he shall prepare a burnt offering to the LORD, seven bullocks and seven rams without blemish daily the seven days; and a kid of the goats daily for a sin offering. EZEK 45:25 In the seventh month, in the fifteenth day of the month, shall he do the like in the feast of the seven days, according to the sin offering, according to the burnt offering, and according to the meat offering, and according to the oil.

DANIEL

DAN 3:19 Then was Nebuchadnezzar full of fury, and the form of his visage was changed against Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego: therefore he spake, and commanded that they should heat the furnace one seven times more than it was wont to be heated. DAN 4:16 Let his heart be changed from man's, and let a beast's heart be given unto him; and let seven times pass over him. DAN 4:23 And whereas the king saw a watcher and an holy one coming down from heaven, and saying, Hew the tree down, and destroy it; yet leave the stump of the roots thereof in the earth, even with a band of iron and brass, in the tender grass of the field; and let it be wet with the dew of heaven, and let his portion be with the beasts of the field, till seven times pass over him; DAN 4:25 That they shall drive thee from men, and thy dwelling shall be with the beasts of the field, and they shall make thee to eat grass as oxen, and they shall wet thee with the dew of heaven, and seven times shall pass over thee, till thou know that the most High ruleth in the kingdom of men, and giveth it to whomsoever he will. (DAN 4:32 And they shall drive thee from men, and thy dwelling shall be with the beasts of the field: they shall make thee to eat grass as oxen, and seven times shall pass over thee, until thou know that the most High ruleth in the kingdom of men, and giveth it to whomsoever he will. DAN 9:2 In the first year of his reign I Daniel understood by books the number of the years, whereof the word of the LORD came to


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Jeremiah the prophet, that he would accomplish seventy years in the desolations of Jerusalem. DAN 9:24 Seventy weeks are determined upon thy people and upon thy holy city, to finish the transgression, and to make an end of sins, and to make reconciliation for iniquity, and to bring in everlasting righteousness, and to seal up the vision and prophecy, and to anoint the most Holy. DAN 9:25 Know therefore and understand, that from the going forth of the commandment to restore and to build Jerusalem unto the Messiah the Prince shall be seven weeks, and threescore and two weeks: the street shall be built again, and the wall, even in troublous times.

By reading the Bible, we find that God spoke through the prophet Daniel, many things about the end time. Noted above, several citations refer to paragraphs derived from seven (seventy weeks, seventy, seven weeks). The seventh millennium is also related to the Lord's purpose for the end time. Let us read the following verse:

DAN 9:24 Seventy weeks are determined upon thy people and upon thy holy city, to finish the transgression, and to make an end of sins, and to make reconciliation for iniquity, and to bring in everlasting righteousness, and to seal up the vision and prophecy, and to anoint the most

After these seven thousand years since creation, then God Himself will dwell with men. Already completed six thousand years since the creation of the world, which added to the thousand year reign of Jesus Christ, will amount to seven thousand years. Let us examine the following verses:

REV 20:7 And when the thousand years are expired, Satan shall be loosed out of his prison, REV 20:8 And shall go out to deceive the nations which are in the four quarters of the earth, Gog, and Magog, to gather them together to battle: the number of whom is as the sand of the sea. REV 20:9 And they went up on the breadth of the earth, and compassed the camp of the saints about, and the beloved city: and fire came down from God out of heaven, and devoured them. REV 20:10 And the devil that deceived them was cast


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into the lake of fire and brimstone, where the beast and the false prophet are, and shall be tormented day and night for ever and ever. REV 20:11 And I saw a great white throne, and him that sat on it, from whose face the earth and the heaven fled away; and there was found no place for them. REV 20:12 And I saw the dead, small and great, stand before God; and the books were opened: and another book was opened, which is the book of life: and the dead were judged out of those things which were written in the books, according to their works. REV 20:13 And the sea gave up the dead which were in it; and death and hell delivered up the dead which were in them: and they were judged every man according to their works. REV 20:14 And death and hell were cast into the lake of fire. This is the second death. REV 20:15 And whosoever was not found written in the book of life was cast into the lake of fire.

REV 21:1 And I saw a new heaven and a new earth: for the first heaven and the first earth were passed away; and there was no more sea. REV 21:2 And I John saw the holy city, new Jerusalem, coming down from God out of heaven, prepared as a bride adorned for her husband. REV 21:3 And I heard a great voice out of heaven saying, Behold, the tabernacle of God is with men, and he will dwell with them, and they shall be his people, and God himself shall be with them, and be their God. REV 21:4 And God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes; and there shall be no more death, neither sorrow, nor crying, neither shall there be any more pain: for the former things are passed away. REV 21:5 And he that sat upon the throne said, Behold, I make all things new. And he said unto me, Write: for these words are true and faithful. REV 21:6 And he said unto me, It is done. I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the end. I will give unto him that is athirst of the fountain of the water of life freely. REV 21:7 He that overcometh shall inherit all things; and I will be his God, and he shall be my son. REV 21:8 But the fearful, and unbelieving, and the abominable, and murderers, and whoremongers, and


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sorcerers, and idolaters, and all liars, shall have their part in the lake which burneth with fire and brimstone: which is the second death.

These verses of Revelation, harmonize perfectly with verse 24 of Chapter 9 of the Book of Daniel. Making the integration of these two texts, we could create the following thought: Seven thousand years are determined upon the people of God and the holy city to finish transgression, to make an end of sins (ceasing to death, and mourning, the crying, and pain), to atone for wickedness, to bring everlasting righteousness, because God Himself will dwell with men, once everything is completed. Note that the verse from the Book of Daniel refers to the phrases "bring in everlasting righteousness, to make an end of sins, make reconciliation for iniquity, " ie, everything that will happen when God himself comes to dwell with his people, as described up in the book of Revelation. ZACHARIAS

ZECH 1:12 Then the angel of the LORD answered and said, O LORD of hosts, how long wilt thou not have mercy on Jerusalem and on the cities of Judah, against which thou hast had indignation these threescore and ten years? ZECH 3:9 For behold the stone that I have laid before Joshua; upon one stone shall be seven eyes: behold, I will engrave the graving thereof, saith the LORD of hosts, and I will remove the iniquity of that land in one day. ZECH 4:2 And said unto me, What seest thou? And I said, I have looked, and behold a candlestick all of gold, with a bowl upon the top of it, and his seven lamps thereon, and seven pipes to the seven lamps, which are upon the top thereof: ZECH 4:10 For who hath despised the day of small things? for they shall rejoice, and shall see the plummet in the hand of Zerubbabel with those seven; they are the eyes of the LORD, which run to and fro through the whole earth. ZECH 7:5 Speak unto all the people of the land, and to the priests, saying, When ye fasted and mourned in


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the fifth and seventh month, even those seventy years, did ye at all fast unto me, even to me?

THE NEW TESTAMENT SEVEN BREADS

MT 15:34 And Jesus saith unto them, How many loaves have ye? And they said, Seven, and a few little fishes. MT 15:36 And he took the seven loaves and the fishes, and gave thanks, and brake them, and gave to his disciples, and the disciples to the multitude. MT 15:37 And they did all eat, and were filled: and they took up of the broken meat that was left seven baskets full. MT 16:10 Neither the seven loaves of the four thousand, and how many baskets ye took up? MK 8:5 And he asked them, How many loaves have ye? And they said, Seven. MK 8:6 And he commanded the people to sit down on the ground: and he took the seven loaves, and gave thanks, and brake, and gave to his disciples to set before them; and they did set them before the people. MK 8:8 So they did eat, and were filled: and they took up of the broken meat that was left seven baskets. MK 8:20 And when the seven among four thousand, how many baskets full of fragments took ye up? And they said, Seven.

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MT 18:21 Then came Peter to him, and said, Lord, how oft shall my brother sin against me, and I forgive him? till seven times? MT 18:22 Jesus saith unto him, I say not unto thee, Until seven times: but, Until seventy times seven. LK 17:4 And if he trespass against thee seven times in a day, and seven times in a day turn again to thee, saying, I repent; thou shalt forgive him.


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THE MISSION OF THE SEVENTY

LK 10:1 After these things the LORD appointed other seventy also, and sent them two and two before his face into every city and place, whither he himself would come. LK 10:17 And the seventy returned again with joy, saying, Lord, even the devils are subject unto us through thy name.

JESUS APPEARS TO SEVEN DISCIPLES

JN 21:1 After these things Jesus shewed himself again to the disciples at the sea of Tiberias; and on this wise shewed he himself. JN 21:2 There were together Simon Peter, and Thomas called Didymus, and Nathanael of Cana in Galilee, and the sons of Zebedee, and two other of his disciples. JN 21:3 Simon Peter saith unto them, I go a fishing. They say unto him, We also go with thee. They went forth, and entered into a ship immediately; and that night they caught nothing. JN 21:4 But when the morning was now come, Jesus stood on the shore: but the disciples knew not that it was Jesus. JN 21:5 Then Jesus saith unto them, Children, have ye any meat? They answered him, No. JN 21:6 And he said unto them, Cast the net on the right side of the ship, and ye shall find. They cast therefore, and now they were not able to draw it for the multitude of fishes.

Once risen Jesus appears to his disciples, and performs again the miraculous catch. This time, when Jesus performs this miracle, are on board seven of his disciples. It must also mentioned in verse 14 of chapter 21 of John's gospel, this was the third time that Jesus was manifested to the disciples. APOCALYPSE


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REV 1:4 John to the seven churches which are in Asia: Grace be unto you, and peace, from him which is, and which was, and which is to come; and from the seven Spirits which are before his throne; REV 1:11 Saying, I am Alpha and Omega, the first and the last: and, What thou seest, write in a book, and send it unto the seven churches which are in Asia; unto Ephesus, and unto Smyrna, and unto Pergamos, and unto Thyatira, and unto Sardis, and unto Philadelphia, and unto Laodicea. REV 1:12 And I turned to see the voice that spake with me. And being turned, I saw seven golden candlesticks; REV 1:13 And in the midst of the seven candlesticks one like unto the Son of man, clothed with a garment down to the foot, and girt about the paps with a golden girdle. REV 1:16 And he had in his right hand seven stars: and out of his mouth went a sharp twoedged sword: and his countenance was as the sun shineth in his strength. REV 1:20 The mystery of the seven stars which thou sawest in my right hand, and the seven golden candlesticks. The seven stars are the angels of the seven churches: and the seven candlesticks which thou sawest are the seven churches. REV 2:1 Unto the angel of the church of Ephesus write; These things saith he that holdeth the seven stars in his right hand, who walketh in the midst of the seven golden candlesticks; REV 3:1 And unto the angel of the church in Sardis write; These things saith he that hath the seven Spirits of God, and the seven stars; I know thy works, that thou hast a name that thou livest, and art dead. REV 4:5 And out of the throne proceeded lightnings and thunderings and voices: and there were seven lamps of fire burning before the throne, which are the seven Spirits of God. REV 5:1 And I saw in the right hand of him that sat on the throne a book written within and on the backside, sealed with seven seals. REV 5:5 And one of the elders saith unto me, Weep not: behold, the Lion of the tribe of Juda, the Root of David, hath prevailed to open the book, and to loose the seven seals thereof.


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REV 5:6 And I beheld, and, lo, in the midst of the throne and of the four beasts, and in the midst of the elders, stood a Lamb as it had been slain, having seven horns and seven eyes, which are the seven Spirits of God sent forth into all the earth. REV 8:2 And I saw the seven angels which stood before God; and to them were given seven trumpets. REV 8:6 And the seven angels which had the seven trumpets prepared themselves to sound. REV 10:3 And cried with a loud voice, as when a lion roareth: and when he had cried, seven thunders uttered their voices. REV 10:4 And when the seven thunders had uttered their voices, I was about to write: and I heard a voice from heaven saying unto me, Seal up those things which the seven thunders uttered, and write them not. REV 11:13 And the same hour was there a great earthquake, and the tenth part of the city fell, and in the earthquake were slain of men seven thousand: and the remnant were affrighted, and gave glory to the God of heaven. REV 12:3 And there appeared another wonder in heaven; and behold a great red dragon, having seven heads and ten horns, and seven crowns upon his heads. REV 13:1 And I stood upon the sand of the sea, and saw a beast rise up out of the sea, having seven heads and ten horns, and upon his horns ten crowns, and upon his heads the name of blasphemy. REV 15:1 And I saw another sign in heaven, great and marvellous, seven angels having the seven last plagues; for in them is filled up the wrath of God. REV 15:6 And the seven angels came out of the temple, having the seven plagues, clothed in pure and white linen, and having their breasts girded with golden girdles. REV 15:7 And one of the four beasts gave unto the seven angels seven golden vials full of the wrath of God, who liveth for ever and ever. REV 15:8 And the temple was filled with smoke from the glory of God, and from his power; and no man was able to enter into the temple, till the seven plagues of the seven angels were fulfilled. REV 16:1 And I heard a great voice out of the temple saying to the seven angels, Go your ways, and pour out the vials of the wrath of God upon the earth.


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REV 17:1 And there came one of the seven angels which had the seven vials, and talked with me, saying unto me, Come hither; I will shew unto thee the judgment of the great whore that sitteth upon many waters: REV 17:3 So he carried me away in the spirit into the wilderness: and I saw a woman sit upon a scarlet coloured beast, full of names of blasphemy, having seven heads and ten horns. REV 17:7 And the angel said unto me, Wherefore didst thou marvel? I will tell thee the mystery of the woman, and of the beast that carrieth her, which hath the seven heads and ten horns. REV 17:9 And here is the mind which hath wisdom. The seven heads are seven mountains, on which the woman sitteth. REV 17:10 And there are seven kings: five are fallen, and one is, and the other is not yet come; and when he cometh, he must continue a short space. REV 17:11 And the beast that was, and is not, even he is the eighth, and is of the seven, and goeth into perdition. REV 21:9 And there came unto me one of the seven angels which had the seven vials full of the seven last plagues, and talked with me, saying, Come hither, I will shew thee the bride, the Lamb's wife.

The number "seven"in the Book of Revelation is a constant, since it is precisely the Book of Revelation, the last book, in which God's work is accomplished. The seven presented here through: - Seven churches of Asia (REV.1, v.4); - Seven Spirits who are before the throne (REV.1, v.4); - Seven golden candlesticks (REV.1, v.12); - Seven stars (REV.1, v.16); - Seven lamps of fire (REV.4, v.5); - Seven Seals (REV.5, v.1); - Seven horns (REV.5, v.6); - Seven eyes (REV.5, v.6); - Seven Angels (REV.8, v.2); - Seven Trumpets (REV.8, v.2); - Seven diadems (REV.12, v.3); - Seven last plagues (REV.15, v.1);


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THE SEVENTH TRUMPET

REV 11:15 And the seventh angel sounded; and there were great voices in heaven, saying, The kingdoms of this world are become the kingdoms of our Lord, and of his Christ; and he shall reign for ever and ever. REV 11:16 And the four and twenty elders, which sat before God on their seats, fell upon their faces, and worshipped God, REV 11:17 Saying, We give thee thanks, O LORD God Almighty, which art, and wast, and art to come; because thou hast taken to thee thy great power, and hast reigned. REV 11:18 And the nations were angry, and thy wrath is come, and the time of the dead, that they should be judged, and that thou shouldest give reward unto thy servants the prophets, and to the saints, and them that fear thy name, small and great; and shouldest destroy them which destroy the earth.


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Chapter 4

RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN THE NUMBERS

THE FOURTH DAY - THE FOURTH MILLENNIUM

THE FOURTH DAY

GEN 1:1 In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth. GEN 1:2 And the earth was without form, and void; and darkness was upon the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters. GEN 1:3 And God said, Let there be light: and there was light. GEN 1:4 And God saw the light, that it was good: and God divided the light from the darkness. GEN 1:5 And God called the light Day, and the darkness he called Night. And the evening and the morning were the first day. GEN 1:6 And God said, Let there be a firmament in the midst of the waters, and let it divide the waters from the waters. GEN 1:7 And God made the firmament, and divided the waters which were under the firmament from the waters which were above the firmament: and it was so. GEN 1:8 And God called the firmament Heaven. And the evening and the morning were the second day. GEN 1:9 And God said, Let the waters under the heaven be gathered together unto one place, and let the dry land appear: and it was so.


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GEN 1:10 And God called the dry land Earth; and the gathering together of the waters called he Seas: and God saw that it was good. GEN 1:11 And God said, Let the earth bring forth grass, the herb yielding seed, and the fruit tree yielding fruit after his kind, whose seed is in itself, upon the earth: and it was so. GEN 1:12 And the earth brought forth grass, and herb yielding seed after his kind, and the tree yielding fruit, whose seed was in itself, after his kind: and God saw that it was good. GEN 1:13 And the evening and the morning were the third day. GEN 1:14 And God said, Let there be lights in the firmament of the heaven to divide the day from the night; and let them be for signs, and for seasons, and for days, and years: GEN 1:15 And let them be for lights in the firmament of the heaven to give light upon the earth: and it was so. GEN 1:16 And God made two great lights; the greater light to rule the day, and the lesser light to rule the night: he made the stars also. GEN 1:17 And God set them in the firmament of the heaven to give light upon the earth, GEN 1:18 And to rule over the day and over the night, and to divide the light from the darkness: and God saw that it was good. GEN 1:19 And the evening and the morning were the fourth day.

As we have presented in this work, the number four in the Good Book, is a waiting period of preparation within the purpose of God. In creation, we note that this thought is confirmed when God divides the building in several days. God has reserved the first four days of creation, to prepare a work order to be ready to receive then living beings, namely, that life would dwell on the earth. On the first day created the Light In the second, he divided the waters which were under the firmament and the waters that were above the firmament, calling the expansion heaven. In the third, he gathered the waters under the heavens in place, and the dry land appeared, which he called Earth, and the gathered waters he called Seas. Also on the third day, the earth brought forth grass, herb yielding seed after his kind, and the tree yielding fruit, whose seed was in itself after its kind. Finally, the fourth day, God created the sun, moon and stars. Thus in these four days then everything was prepared for the land he could get the living beings.


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Let us now consider the fifth and sixth day of creation:

GEN 1:20 And God said, Let the waters bring forth abundantly the moving creature that hath life, and fowl that may fly above the earth in the open firmament of heaven. GEN 1:21 And God created great whales, and every living creature that moveth, which the waters brought forth abundantly, after their kind, and every winged fowl after his kind: and God saw that it was good. GEN 1:22 And God blessed them, saying, Be fruitful, and multiply, and fill the waters in the seas, and let fowl multiply in the earth. GEN 1:23 And the evening and the morning were the fifth day. GEN 1:24 And God said, Let the earth bring forth the living creature after his kind, cattle, and creeping thing, and beast of the earth after his kind: and it was so. GEN 1:25 And God made the beast of the earth after his kind, and cattle after their kind, and every thing that creepeth upon the earth after his kind: and God saw that it was good. GEN 1:26 And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth. GEN 1:27 So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them. GEN 1:28 And God blessed them, and God said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth, and subdue it: and have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over every living thing that moveth upon the earth. GEN 1:29 And God said, Behold, I have given you every herb bearing seed, which is upon the face of all the earth, and every tree, in the which is the fruit of a tree yielding seed; to you it shall be for meat. GEN 1:30 And to every beast of the earth, and to every fowl of the air, and to every thing that creepeth upon the earth, wherein there is life, I have given every green herb for meat: and it was so. GEN 1:31 And God saw every thing that he had made,


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and, behold, it was very good. And the evening and the morning were the sixth day.

THE FOURTH MILLENNIUM Just as we said above, God in the first four days of creation, prepared the ground so she was ready to receive the living beings, namely, that life could live here, also since the creation of the world, it was necessary wait a period of approximately four thousand years before the light came into the world as the gospel of John teaches us:

JN 1:1 In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. JN 1:2 The same was in the beginning with God. JN 1:3 All things were made by him; and without him was not any thing made that was made. JN 1:4 In him was life; and the life was the light of men. JN 1:5 And the light shineth in darkness; and the darkness comprehended it not. JN 1:6 There was a man sent from God, whose name was John. JN 1:7 The same came for a witness, to bear witness of the Light, that all men through him might believe. JN 1:8 He was not that Light, but was sent to bear witness of that Light. JN 1:9 That was the true Light, which lighteth every man that cometh into the world. JN 1:10 He was in the world, and the world was made by him, and the world knew him not. JN 1:11 He came unto his own, and his own received him not. JN 1:12 But as many as received him, to them gave he power to become the sons of God, even to them that believe on his name: JN 1:13 Which were born, not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God. JN 1:14 And the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us, (and we beheld his glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father,) full of grace and truth.

When Jesus Christ came into the world, had already passed a sentence of four thousand years since creation, ie, two thousand years from Adam to Abraham, over a period of approximately two thousand years from Abraham to Jesus, thus adding to a total of four thousand years.


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Another period of four thousand years, also has to do with the waiting time and the work of our Lord Jesus Christ, but now related to the creation of the world, but his relationship with Abraham, the father of faith. As stated above, from Abraham to Jesus Christ represents a period of about two thousand years, and Jesus Christ to our days, a period more than two thousand years. That is, from Abraham to the return of Jesus Christ, we also have a waiting period of four thousand years. And what accounts for this period? Represents the waiting time of the promise made by our God.

GEN 12:1 Now the LORD had said unto Abram, Get thee out of thy country, and from thy kindred, and from thy father's house, unto a land that I will show thee: GEN 12:2 And I will make of thee a great nation, and I will bless thee, and make thy name great; and thou shalt be a blessing: GEN 12:3 And I will bless them that bless thee, and curse him that curseth thee: and in thee shall all families of the earth be blessed. GEN 12:4 So Abram departed, as the LORD had spoken unto him; and Lot went with him: and Abram was seventy and five years old when he departed out of Haran. GEN 12:5 And Abram took Sarai his wife, and Lot his brother's son, and all their substance that they had gathered, and the souls that they had gotten in Haran; and they went forth to go into the land of Canaan; and into the land of Canaan they came. GEN 12:6 And Abram passed through the land unto the place of Sichem, unto the plain of Moreh. And the Canaanite was then in the land. GEN 12:7 And the LORD appeared unto Abram, and said, Unto thy seed will I give this land: and there builded he an altar unto the LORD, who appeared unto him. GEN 13:14 And the LORD said unto Abram, after that Lot was separated from him, Lift up now thine eyes, and look from the place where thou art northward,


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and southward, and eastward, and westward: GEN 13:15 For all the land which thou seest, to thee will I give it, and to thy seed for ever. GEN 13:16 And I will make thy seed as the dust of the earth: so that if a man can number the dust of the earth, then shall thy seed also be numbered. GEN 13:17 Arise, walk through the land in the length of it and in the breadth of it; for I will give it unto thee. GEN 15:18 In the same day the LORD made a covenant with Abram, saying, Unto thy seed have I given this land, from the river of Egypt unto the great river, the river Euphrates GAL 3:15 Brethren, I speak after the manner of men; Though it be but a man's covenant, yet if it be confirmed, no man disannulleth, or addeth thereto. GAL 3:16 Now to Abraham and his seed were the promises made. He saith not, And to seeds, as of many; but as of one, And to thy seed, which is Christ. GAL 3:17 And this I say, that the covenant, that was confirmed before of God in Christ, the law, which was four hundred and thirty years after, cannot disannul, that it should make the promise of none effect. GAL 3:18 For if the inheritance be of the law, it is no more of promise: but God gave it to Abraham by promise. GAL 3:19 Wherefore then serveth the law? It was added because of transgressions, till the seed should come to whom the promise was made; and it was ordained by angels in the hand of a mediator. GAL 3:20 Now a mediator is not a mediator of one, but God is one. GAL 3:21 Is the law then against the promises of God? God forbid: for if there had been a law given which could have given life, verily righteousness should have been by the law. GAL 3:22 But the scripture hath concluded all under sin, that the promise by faith of Jesus Christ might be given to them that believe.

By the excerpts presented above, we note that through Abraham God made the promise that this was achieved by faith in our Lord Jesus Christ. Thus, the promise until the return of our Lord Jesus, God established a waiting period of approximately four thousand years. THIRD DAY - THE THIRD YEAR - THIRD MILLENNIUM


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MT 20:17 And Jesus going up to Jerusalem took the twelve disciples apart in the way, and said unto them, MT 20:18 Behold, we go up to Jerusalem; and the Son of man shall be betrayed unto the chief priests and unto the scribes, and they shall condemn him to death, MT 20:19 And shall deliver him to the Gentiles to mock, and to scourge, and to crucify him: and the third day he shall rise again.

For all the work to be complete, it was necessary for Jesus to suffer and rise again the third day, conquering death and freeing us from sin. With his resurrection, death has been defeated. This is the victory we have in Jesus Christ, our resurrection to eternal life. We need only believe that Jesus Christ came to earth as the Son of God, to give us eternal life. THIRD YEAR

LK 3:21 Now when all the people were baptized, it came to pass, that Jesus also being baptized, and praying, the heaven was opened, LK 3:22 And the Holy Ghost descended in a bodily shape like a dove upon him, and a voice came from heaven, which said, Thou art my beloved Son; in thee I am well pleased. LK 3:23 And Jesus himself began to be about thirty years of age, being (as was supposed) the son of Joseph, which was the son of Heli,

The Book of John describes three Passovers in which Jesus goes to Jerusalem, when it is his death and resurrection. Just as we said earlier, that Jesus Christ rose again the third day, again after the completion of His baptism in the third year of his ministry, his death and resurrection occurs. THIRD MILLENNIUM


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PSALM 90

PS 90:1 Lord, thou hast been our dwelling place in all generations. PS 90:2 Before the mountains were brought forth, or ever thou hadst formed the earth and the world, even from everlasting to everlasting, thou art God. PS 90:3 Thou turnest man to destruction; and sayest, Return, ye children of men. PS 90:4 For a thousand years in thy sight are but as yesterday when it is past, and as a watch in the night.

2 PETER, CHAPTER 3

2PET 3:1 This second epistle, beloved, I now write unto you; in both which I stir up your pure minds by way of remembrance: 2PET 3:2 That ye may be mindful of the words which were spoken before by the holy prophets, and of the commandment of us the apostles of the Lord and Saviour: 2PET 3:3 Knowing this first, that there shall come in the last days scoffers, walking after their own lusts, 2PET 3:4 And saying, Where is the promise of his coming? for since the fathers fell asleep, all things continue as they were from the beginning of the creation. 2PET 3:5 For this they willingly are ignorant of, that by the word of God the heavens were of old, and the earth standing out of the water and in the water: 2PET 3:6 Whereby the world that then was, being overflowed with water, perished: 2PET 3:7 But the heavens and the earth, which are now, by the same word are kept in store, reserved unto fire against the day of judgment and perdition of ungodly men. 2PET 3:8 But, beloved, be not ignorant of this one thing, that one day is with the Lord as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day. 2PET 3:9 The Lord is not slack concerning his promise, as some men count slackness; but is longsuffering to us-ward, not willing that any should perish, but that


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all should come to repentance. 2PET 3:10 But the day of the Lord will come as a thief in the night; in the which the heavens shall pass away with a great noise, and the elements shall melt with fervent heat, the earth also and the works that are therein shall be burned up. 2PET 3:11 Seeing then that all these things shall be dissolved, what manner of persons ought ye to be in all holy conversation and godliness, 2PET 3:12 Looking for and hasting unto the coming of the day of God, wherein the heavens being on fire shall be dissolved, and the elements shall melt with fervent heat? 2PET 3:13 Nevertheless we, according to his promise, look for new heavens and a new earth, wherein dwelleth righteousness. 2PET 3:14 Wherefore, beloved, seeing that ye look for such things, be diligent that ye may be found of him in peace, without spot, and blameless. 2PET 3:15 And account that the longsuffering of our Lord is salvation; even as our beloved brother Paul also according to the wisdom given unto him hath written unto you; 2PET 3:16 As also in all his epistles, speaking in them of these things; in which are some things hard to be understood, which they that are unlearned and unstable wrest, as they do also the other scriptures, unto their own destruction. 2PET 3:17 Ye therefore, beloved, seeing ye know these things before, beware lest ye also, being led away with the error of the wicked, fall from your own stedfastness. 2PET 3:18 But grow in grace, and in the knowledge of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ. To him be glory both now and for ever. Amen.

These two passages also reveal the return of our Lord Jesus Christ in the third millennium since his resurrection, as we demonstrate below. However, before looking at these passages, let us recall a few other texts also taken from the Holy Book, used by Christians to justify the soon coming of our Lord Jesus Christ. SIGNS ON THE EARTH First, as is known by everyone and released long time,


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there is a unanimous conviction of the soon return of our Lord Jesus Christ, by the signs which He taught us through His earthly ministry. The beginning of sorrows, the great tribulation, the coming of the Son of Man, call to vigilance, are described in the first three Gospels, which then transcribe: GOSPEL OF MATTHEW

MT 23:37 O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, thou that killest the prophets, and stonest them which are sent unto thee, how often would I have gathered thy children together, even as a hen gathereth her chickens under her wings, and ye would not! MT 23:38 Behold, your house is left unto you desolate. MT 23:39 For I say unto you, Ye shall not see me henceforth, till ye shall say, Blessed is he that cometh in the name of the Lord.

MT 24:1 And Jesus went out, and departed from the temple: and his disciples came to him for to shew him the buildings of the temple. MT 24:2 And Jesus said unto them, See ye not all these things? verily I say unto you, There shall not be left here one stone upon another, that shall not be thrown down. MT 24:3 And as he sat upon the mount of Olives, the disciples came unto him privately, saying, Tell us, when shall these things be? and what shall be the sign of thy coming, and of the end of the world? MT 24:4 And Jesus answered and said unto them, Take heed that no man deceive you. MT 24:5 For many shall come in my name, saying, I am Christ; and shall deceive many. MT 24:6 And ye shall hear of wars and rumours of wars: see that ye be not troubled: for all these things must come to pass, but the end is not yet. MT 24:7 For nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom: and there shall be famines, and pestilences, and earthquakes, in divers places. MT 24:8 All these are the beginning of sorrows. MT 24:9 Then shall they deliver you up to be afflicted, and shall kill you: and ye shall be hated of all nations for my name's sake. MT 24:10 And then shall many be offended, and


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shall betray one another, and shall hate one another. MT 24:11 And many false prophets shall rise, and shall deceive many. MT 24:12 And because iniquity shall abound, the love of many shall wax cold. MT 24:13 But he that shall endure unto the end, the same shall be saved. MT 24:14 And this gospel of the kingdom shall be preached in all the world for a witness unto all nations; and then shall the end come. MT 24:15 When ye therefore shall see the abomination of desolation, spoken of by Daniel the prophet, stand in the holy place, (whoso readeth, let him understand:) MT 24:16 Then let them which be in Judaea flee into the mountains: MT 24:17 Let him which is on the housetop not come down to take any thing out of his house: MT 24:18 Neither let him which is in the field return back to take his clothes. MT 24:19 And woe unto them that are with child, and to them that give suck in those days! MT 24:20 But pray ye that your flight be not in the winter, neither on the sabbath day: MT 24:21 For then shall be great tribulation, such as was not since the beginning of the world to this time, no, nor ever shall be. MT 24:22 And except those days should be shortened, there should no flesh be saved: but for the elect's sake those days shall be shortened. MT 24:23 Then if any man shall say unto you, Lo, here is Christ, or there; believe it not. MT 24:24 For there shall arise false Christs, and false prophets, and shall shew great signs and wonders; insomuch that, if it were possible, they shall deceive the very elect. MT 24:25 Behold, I have told you before. MT 24:26 Wherefore if they shall say unto you, Behold, he is in the desert; go not forth: behold, he is in the secret chambers; believe it not. MT 24:27 For as the lightning cometh out of the east, and shineth even unto the west; so shall also the coming of the Son of man be. MT 24:28 For wheresoever the carcase is, there will the eagles be gathered together. MT 24:29 Immediately after the tribulation of those days shall the sun be darkened, and the moon shall


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not give her light, and the stars shall fall from heaven, and the powers of the heavens shall be shaken: MT 24:30 And then shall appear the sign of the Son of man in heaven: and then shall all the tribes of the earth mourn, and they shall see the Son of man coming in the clouds of heaven with power and great glory. MT 24:31 And he shall send his angels with a great sound of a trumpet, and they shall gather together his elect from the four winds, from one end of heaven to the other. MT 24:32 Now learn a parable of the fig tree; When his branch is yet tender, and putteth forth leaves, ye know that summer is nigh: MT 24:33 So likewise ye, when ye shall see all these things, know that it is near, even at the doors. MT 24:34 Verily I say unto you, This generation shall not pass, till all these things be fulfilled. MT 24:35 Heaven and earth shall pass away, but my words shall not pass away. MT 24:36 But of that day and hour knoweth no man, no, not the angels of heaven, but my Father only. MT 24:37 But as the days of Noe were, so shall also the coming of the Son of man be. MT 24:38 For as in the days that were before the flood they were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, until the day that Noe entered into the ark, MT 24:39 And knew not until the flood came, and took them all away; so shall also the coming of the Son of man be. MT 24:40 Then shall two be in the field; the one shall be taken, and the other left. MT 24:41 Two women shall be grinding at the mill; the one shall be taken, and the other left. MT 24:42 Watch therefore: for ye know not what hour your Lord doth come. MT 24:43 But know this, that if the goodman of the house had known in what watch the thief would come, he would have watched, and would not have suffered his house to be broken up. MT 24:44 Therefore be ye also ready: for in such an hour as ye think not the Son of man cometh.

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MK 13:1 And as he went out of the temple, one of his disciples saith unto him, Master, see what manner of stones and what buildings are here! MK 13:2 And Jesus answering said unto him, Seest thou these great buildings? there shall not be left one stone upon another, that shall not be thrown down. MK 13:3 And as he sat upon the mount of Olives over against the temple, Peter and James and John and Andrew asked him privately, MK 13:4 Tell us, when shall these things be? and what shall be the sign when all these things shall be fulfilled? MK 13:5 And Jesus answering them began to say, Take heed lest any man deceive you: MK 13:6 For many shall come in my name, saying, I am Christ; and shall deceive many. MK 13:7 And when ye shall hear of wars and rumours of wars, be ye not troubled: for such things must needs be; but the end shall not be yet. MK 13:8 For nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom: and there shall be earthquakes in divers places, and there shall be famines and troubles: these are the beginnings of sorrows. MK 13:9 But take heed to yourselves: for they shall deliver you up to councils; and in the synagogues ye shall be beaten: and ye shall be brought before rulers and kings for my sake, for a testimony against them. MK 13:10 And the gospel must first be published among all nations. MK 13:11 But when they shall lead you, and deliver you up, take no thought beforehand what ye shall speak, neither do ye premeditate: but whatsoever shall be given you in that hour, that speak ye: for it is not ye that speak, but the Holy Ghost. MK 13:12 Now the brother shall betray the brother to death, and the father the son; and children shall rise up against their parents, and shall cause them to be put to death. MK 13:13 And ye shall be hated of all men for my name's sake: but he that shall endure unto the end, the same shall be saved. MK 13:14 But when ye shall see the abomination of desolation, spoken of by Daniel the prophet, standing where it ought not, (let him that readeth understand,) then let them that be in Judaea flee to the mountains: MK 13:15 And let him that is on the housetop not go


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down into the house, neither enter therein, to take any thing out of his house: MK 13:16 And let him that is in the field not turn back again for to take up his garment. MK 13:17 But woe to them that are with child, and to them that give suck in those days! MK 13:18 And pray ye that your flight be not in the winter. MK 13:19 For in those days shall be affliction, such as was not from the beginning of the creation which God created unto this time, neither shall be. MK 13:20 And except that the Lord had shortened those days, no flesh should be saved: but for the elect's sake, whom he hath chosen, he hath shortened the days. MK 13:21 And then if any man shall say to you, Lo, here is Christ; or, lo, he is there; believe him not: MK 13:22 For false Christs and false prophets shall rise, and shall shew signs and wonders, to seduce, if it were possible, even the elect. MK 13:23 But take ye heed: behold, I have foretold you all things. MK 13:24 But in those days, after that tribulation, the sun shall be darkened, and the moon shall not give her light, MK 13:25 And the stars of heaven shall fall, and the powers that are in heaven shall be shaken. MK 13:26 And then shall they see the Son of man coming in the clouds with great power and glory. MK 13:27 And then shall he send his angels, and shall gather together his elect from the four winds, from the uttermost part of the earth to the uttermost part of heaven. MK 13:28 Now learn a parable of the fig tree; When her branch is yet tender, and putteth forth leaves, ye know that summer is near: MK 13:29 So ye in like manner, when ye shall see these things come to pass, know that it is nigh, even at the doors. MK 13:30 Verily I say unto you, that this generation shall not pass, till all these things be done. MK 13:31 Heaven and earth shall pass away: but my words shall not pass away. MK 13:32 But of that day and that hour knoweth no man, no, not the angels which are in heaven, neither the Son, but the Father. MK 13:33 Take ye heed, watch and pray: for ye know


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not when the time is. MK 13:34 For the Son of Man is as a man taking a far journey, who left his house, and gave authority to his servants, and to every man his work, and commanded the porter to watch. MK 13:35 Watch ye therefore: for ye know not when the master of the house cometh, at even, or at midnight, or at the cockcrowing, or in the morning: MK 13:36 Lest coming suddenly he find you sleeping. MK 13:37 And what I say unto you I say unto all, Watch.

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LK 21:5 And as some spake of the temple, how it was adorned with goodly stones and gifts, he said, LK 21:6 As for these things which ye behold, the days will come, in the which there shall not be left one stone upon another, that shall not be thrown down. LK 21:7 And they asked him, saying, Master, but when shall these things be? and what sign will there be when these things shall come to pass? LK 21:8 And he said, Take heed that ye be not deceived: for many shall come in my name, saying, I am Christ; and the time draweth near: go ye not therefore after them. LK 21:9 But when ye shall hear of wars and commotions, be not terrified: for these things must first come to pass; but the end is not by and by. LK 21:10 Then said he unto them, Nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom: LK 21:11 And great earthquakes shall be in divers places, and famines, and pestilences; and fearful sights and great signs shall there be from heaven. LK 21:12 But before all these, they shall lay their hands on you, and persecute you, delivering you up to the synagogues, and into prisons, being brought before kings and rulers for my name's sake. LK 21:13 And it shall turn to you for a testimony. LK 21:14 Settle it therefore in your hearts, not to meditate before what ye shall answer: LK 21:15 For I will give you a mouth and wisdom, which all your adversaries shall not be able to gainsay nor resist. LK 21:16 And ye shall be betrayed both by parents, and brethren, and kinsfolks, and friends; and some of


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you shall they cause to be put to death. LK 21:17 And ye shall be hated of all men for my name's sake. LK 21:18 But there shall not an hair of your head perish. LK 21:19 In your patience possess ye your souls. LK 21:20 And when ye shall see Jerusalem compassed with armies, then know that the desolation thereof is nigh. LK 21:21 Then let them which are in Judaea flee to the mountains; and let them which are in the midst of it depart out; and let not them that are in the countries enter thereinto. LK 21:22 For these be the days of vengeance, that all things which are written may be fulfilled. LK 21:23 But woe unto them that are with child, and to them that give suck, in those days! for there shall be great distress in the land, and wrath upon this people. LK 21:24 And they shall fall by the edge of the sword, and shall be led away captive into all nations: and Jerusalem shall be trodden down of the Gentiles, until the times of the Gentiles be fulfilled. LK 21:25 And there shall be signs in the sun, and in the moon, and in the stars; and upon the earth distress of nations, with perplexity; the sea and the waves roaring; LK 21:26 Men's hearts failing them for fear, and for looking after those things which are coming on the earth: for the powers of heaven shall be shaken. LK 21:27 And then shall they see the Son of man coming in a cloud with power and great glory. LK 21:28 And when these things begin to come to pass, then look up, and lift up your heads; for your redemption draweth nigh. LK 21:29 And he spake to them a parable; Behold the fig tree, and all the trees; LK 21:30 When they now shoot forth, ye see and know of your own selves that summer is now nigh at hand. LK 21:31 So likewise ye, when ye see these things come to pass, know ye that the kingdom of God is nigh at hand. LK 21:32 Verily I say unto you, This generation shall not pass away, till all be fulfilled. LK 21:33 Heaven and earth shall pass away: but my words shall not pass away.


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LK 21:34 And take heed to yourselves, lest at any time your hearts be overcharged with surfeiting, and drunkenness, and cares of this life, and so that day come upon you unawares. LK 21:35 For as a snare shall it come on all them that dwell on the face of the whole earth. LK 21:36 Watch ye therefore, and pray always, that ye may be accounted worthy to escape all these things that shall come to pass, and to stand before the Son of man.

Now, by reading these excerpts from the three gospels above, is that the Christian church in its various denominations, hoping for the return soon of our Lord Jesus Christ. THIRD MILLENNIUM - SEVENTH MILLENNIUM Beyond what was presented earlier, leads us to another element of belief around the Lord Jesus in this third millennium. It's the third millennium, just complete the work of God, for His purpose by this third millennium is also the seventh millennium we are living since the creation of the world, which is the millennium of the reign of Jesus a thousand years, when there will be rest on the ground. PSALM 90 AND THE SECOND LETTER OF PETER, CAP. 3 To facilitate understanding, I would transcribe again a few verses of the Second Letter of Peter, chapter 3, namely:

2PET 3:3 Knowing this first, that there shall come in the last days scoffers, walking after their own lusts, 2PET 3:7 But the heavens and the earth, which are now, by the same word are kept in store, reserved unto fire against the day of judgment and perdition of ungodly men. 2PET 3:8 But, beloved, be not ignorant of this one thing, that one day is with the Lord as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day. 2PET 3:9 The Lord is not slack concerning his promise, as some men count slackness; but is longsuffering to us-ward, not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance. 2PET 3:10 But the day of the Lord will come as a thief in the night; in the which the heavens shall pass


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away with a great noise, and the elements shall melt with fervent heat, the earth also and the works that are therein shall be burned up 2PET 3:12 Looking for and hasting unto the coming of the day of God, wherein the heavens being on fire shall be dissolved, and the elements shall melt with fervent heat? 2PET 3:18 But grow in grace, and in the knowledge of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ. To him be glory both now and for ever. Amen.

Here, when Peter says that a thousand years to God is like a day and one day as a thousand years, is a prophetic phrase that combined not only with the rest of this chapter as well as with the rest of the Holy Book tells us that the seventh millennium is the millennium, or "DIA" the return of our Lord Jesus Christ. When Peter uses the phrase "... in recent days is ...", as we read in the last millennia. Note that Chapter 3 of the Second Letter of Peter is exactly the coming of the Lord Jesus and its significance. Observe the following excerpts below:

MT 24:36 But of that day and hour knoweth no man, no, not the angels of heaven, but my Father only. MT 24:42 Watch therefore: for ye know not what hour your Lord doth come. MT 24:44 Therefore be ye also ready: for in such an hour as ye think not the Son of man cometh. MK 13:32 But of that day and that hour knoweth no man, no, not the angels which are in heaven, neither the Son, but the Father.

In these passages, the word day comes bundled with the word time, ie, here it is not the "Lord's Day" as being the prophetic sense of the seventh millennium since the creation of the world and the third millennium of the death and resurrection of Jesus Christ but we must apply a narrow definition, ie, as being really the time when Jesus will come, which we do not know but the Father We understand that the word of God is true, just and true. Nobody knows the day and hour of Jesus' coming, this is a mystery that belongs to the Father Like our Lord Jesus prophesied signs that would precede his return, without specifying the date and time, this paper aims to demonstrate that our Holy Book has total harmony in all his writings, when directed to do a reading numbers and try to understand them on their purpose in the Holy Bible. Why we still do not know what day and time? It is impossible to make a chronological analysis of the Holy Bible in an accurate, since the creation of the world. Differ


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several previous studies, whether in religious or even in science. Yes we have some elements that are peaceful, that is, the creation of the world to Abraham, it took up about two thousand years. From Abraham to Jesus Christ, also something close to two thousand years. Finally, yes, of Jesus Christ to our present day, it's been two thousand and ten years. Even in the latter period, there is correction to be made about the exact time of birth of our Lord Jesus Christ and the beginning of the calendar, something that varies around 4-5 years behind the calendar. Thus, we know it's been about four thousand years during the Old Testament and about two thousand and 10 years of Jesus until today, that is, a period already finished six thousand years or so. Thus, by which we present in this work, we believe that the seventh millennium will be those in which they will consummate the work of God according to His purpose, without, however, know exactly when this will happen, ie, days and hours exactly. Apparently, we are already experiencing the beginning of the seventh millennium, with Jesus at the door to return once the signs confirmed that he actually predicted this present moment as his back. THE SEVENTH DAY - THE SEVENTH YEAR - THE SEVENTH MILLENNIUM SEVENTH DAY

“GEN 2:3 And God blessed the seventh day, and sanctified it: because that in it he had rested from all his work which God created and made.”

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LEV 25:3 Six years thou shalt sow thy field, and six years thou shalt prune thy vineyard, and gather in the fruit thereof; LEV 25:4 But in the seventh year shall be a sabbath of rest unto the land, a sabbath for the LORD: thou shalt neither sow thy field, nor prune thy vineyard. LEV 25:5 That which groweth of its own accord of thy harvest thou shalt not reap, neither gather the grapes of thy vine undressed: for it is a year of rest unto the land.


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REV 20:2 And he laid hold on the dragon, that old serpent, which is the Devil, and Satan, and bound him a thousand years, REV 20:3 And cast him into the bottomless pit, and shut him up, and set a seal upon him, that he should deceive the nations no more, till the thousand years should be fulfilled: and after that he must be loosed a little season. REV 20:6 Blessed and holy is he that hath part in the first resurrection: on such the second death hath no power, but they shall be priests of God and of Christ, and shall reign with him a thousand years. 2PET 3:8 But, beloved, be not ignorant of this one thing, that one day is with the Lord as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day.

REV 20:1 And I saw an angel come down from heaven, having the key of the bottomless pit and a great chain in his hand. REV 20:2 And he laid hold on the dragon, that old serpent, which is the Devil, and Satan, and bound him a thousand years, REV 20:3 And cast him into the bottomless pit, and shut him up, and set a seal upon him, that he should deceive the nations no more, till the thousand years should be fulfilled: and after that he must be loosed a little season. REV 20:4 And I saw thrones, and they sat upon them, and judgment was given unto them: and I saw the souls of them that were beheaded for the witness of Jesus, and for the word of God, and which had not worshipped the beast, neither his image, neither had received his mark upon their foreheads, or in their hands; and they lived and reigned with Christ a thousand years. REV 20:5 But the rest of the dead lived not again until the thousand years were finished. This is the first resurrection. REV 20:6 Blessed and holy is he that hath part in the first resurrection: on such the second death hath no power, but they shall be priests of God and of Christ, and shall reign with him a thousand years. REV 20:7 And when the thousand years are expired,


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Satan shall be loosed out of his prison, REV 20:8 And shall go out to deceive the nations which are in the four quarters of the earth, Gog, and Magog, to gather them together to battle: the number of whom is as the sand of the sea. REV 20:9 And they went up on the breadth of the earth, and compassed the camp of the saints about, and the beloved city: and fire came down from God out of heaven, and devoured them. REV 20:10 And the devil that deceived them was cast into the lake of fire and brimstone, where the beast and the false prophet are, and shall be tormented day and night for ever and ever. REV 20:11 And I saw a great white throne, and him that sat on it, from whose face the earth and the heaven fled away; and there was found no place for them. REV 20:12 And I saw the dead, small and great, stand before God; and the books were opened: and another book was opened, which is the book of life: and the dead were judged out of those things which were written in the books, according to their works. REV 20:13 And the sea gave up the dead which were in it; and death and hell delivered up the dead which were in them: and they were judged every man according to their works. REV 20:14 And death and hell were cast into the lake of fire. This is the second death. REV 20:15 And whosoever was not found written in the book of life was cast into the lake of fire.

What is the reason to have this done? Well, the answer seems obvious, as it is in their own Bible verse, or why it He rested from all His work which God created and made. We did this question just to show that the rest determined by God, has to do with the making and consummation of all the work he had done. After these six millennia since the creation of the world we see today beyond the creation that God had accomplished in six days, also had another purpose in his will, which was to prepare a kingdom in six millennia, whose message was brought by his Son Jesus Christ . Thus, just as there was a period of six days of creation, and the rest on the seventh day, there is also the purpose of God, a period of six thousand years, whose final objective is the establishment of his kingdom, with a period resting on the seventh millennium. That is evidenced by reading the above verses, the Book of Revelation. After these six millennia, so will our Lord Jesus Christ, to reign on earth for a thousand years. As the word reveals, this will be the


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seventh millennium, regarded as the millennium of rest, once with the prison in the abyss of the devil and Satan, will rest in the earth, for Satan can not during this period deceive the nations, as the word (Ap.20: 3) THE TIME OF THE CRUCIFIXION OF JESUS Consider the following verses:

MK 15:24 And when they had crucified him, they parted his garments, casting lots upon them, what every man should take. MK 15:25 And it was the third hour, and they crucified him. MK 15:26 And the superscription of his accusation was written over, THE KING OF THE JEWS. MK 15:33 And when the sixth hour was come, there was darkness over the whole land until the ninth hour. MK 15:34 And at the ninth hour Jesus cried with a loud voice, saying, Eloi, Eloi, lama sabachthani? which is, being interpreted, My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me? MK 15:35 And some of them that stood by, when they heard it, said, Behold, he calleth Elias. MK 15:36 And one ran and filled a spunge full of vinegar, and put it on a reed, and gave him to drink, saying, Let alone; let us see whether Elias will come to take him down. MK 15:37 And Jesus cried with a loud voice, and gave up the ghost. MK 15:38 And the veil of the temple was rent in twain from the top to the bottom.

The Gospel of Mark is the only one to deal with the crucifixion of Jesus, which explains the time that Jesus Christ was crucified. As verse 25 above, the crucifixion occurred at the third hour. Still, according to verses 34 and 37 above, when the sixth hour there was darkness over all the earth until the ninth hour, and also in this ninth hour, Jesus cried out saying, "God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me?" And, finally, then says the word he expired. Until the last hours of her life here on Earth, the number three followed the Lord Jesus, several times during his crucifixion. First, early on, his crucifixion occurs in the third hour. Then, after an interval of three hours, or the sixth hour, says the word that there was


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darkness over all the earth until the ninth hour. Finally, went over an interval of three hours, during which there was darkness over all the earth. A revelation that God gives us in this end time is related to the period in which Jesus was crucified. Say the word that He was crucified at the time expired on the third and ninth hour, or operated a six-hour period during his crucifixion. Well. We ask: What is about these six hours of the crucifixion of Jesus Christ for the purpose of God with His plan for us? Now we have said numerous times in this work since the creation of the world until today, it's been about six thousand years. We also said that just as God created all things in six days and rested on the seventh, also on the seventh millennium will be the return of Jesus to reign a thousand years, representing the time out of the earth. Now, do you read the following verses:

NUM 14:33 And your children shall wander in the wilderness forty years, and bear your whoredoms, until your carcasses be wasted in the wilderness. NUM 14:34 After the number of the days in which ye searched the land, even forty days, each day for a year, shall ye bear your iniquities, even forty years, and ye shall know my breach of promise.

We have already considered this biblical pass early this study, when the pilgrimage of the Israelites in the desert. These verses were brought here to demonstrate that when the disobedience of his people, for each day that the earth was peek, God ordered a year's pilgrimage, so that for the forty days it took forty years of wandering in the wilderness, until could enter the promised land. Likewise, since Adam committed the original sin, six thousand years have passed in disobedience to God's word, six millennia of "pilgrimage" and obey the Lord. So the word of God tells us is that for each millennium of disobedience of his children, was represented by a time of great pain and suffering borne by our Lord Jesus Christ on the cross. We need to understand this time of the end, that references in the Holy Bible with regard to period of days, hours, etc.., Have a prophetic sense of these mysteries whose revelations, for God's will, were allowed to be brought at this time end.


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Chapter 5 CHRONOLOGY OF THE BIBLE After quickly reading the various texts found on the Internet by addressing the matter, we note there is disagreement about the dating of biblical times, both with variations more or less in quantity of years. However, this work does not have the intention nor the desire to obtain the exact chronology of the Bible, since that only God has it, just to confirm the prophecy brought by our Lord Jesus when he said that no one knows the day nor the hour the great day, but the Father Present, however, below a chronological framework since Adam's creation, which reflects the biblical period, with small variations of dates in relation to other chronological tables.

Fact Duration Períod

The antediluvian world 1600 years

4004-2400 AC

Flood to Abraham 400 years 2400-2000 AC

The patriarchs Abraham, Isaac, Jacob

200 years 2000-1800 AC

Israel in Egypt

400 years 1800-1400 AC

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The Israelite monarchy (Saul, David, Solomon)

120 years 1053-933 AC

The Divided Kingdom

350 years 933-586 AC

Fall of Northern Kingdom (Samaria - -721 AC

The Babylonian exile (Judah)

70 years 606-536 AC

Restoration of the Jewish Nation

100 years 536-432 AC

Ministries of the literary prophets

400 years 800-400 AC

Birth of Jesus

- +- 5 AC

Ministry of John the Baptist

- 29 AD

Ministry of Jesus

3 years 30-33 AD

Conversion of Paul

- 35 AD

Foundation of the churches of Asia Minor and Europe, by Paul

15 years 50-65 AD

Start the Jewish revolt against Romans

- 66 AD

Destruction of the Temple of Jerusalem

- 70 AD

Written Revelation (the last book of the Bible, John the Apostle)

- 96 AD

Death of John the Apostle

- 100 AD

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each. The first period runs from Adam to Abraham, and the second period goes from Abraham to the birth of Jesus Christ. Thus, even Jesus Christ are in addition to approximately 4000 years. Again the four appears in history as a waiting period, ie, humans have waited four thousand years for light to come into the world. Since the birth of Jesus Christ, it took a little over 2000 years, which added to 4000 years before their birth, resulting in a total period of 6,000 years. We are currently in the early seventh millennium since the creation of the world. As we said in this work, the number seven for God, represents a period of rest, contemplation. In creation, God rested on the seventh day. For the people of Israel, God also established a year of rest unto the land. We believe that for the seventh millennium will also rest for the land. And this will occur precisely with the return of Jesus Christ and his reign a thousand years to complete so the seven thousand years of God's purpose. When the apocalypse 20, says that the Devil and Satan will be bound a thousand years, and cast into the abyss, that no longer deceive the nations until the thousand years were finished, I mean that in these one thousand years on earth have a rest. However, even with this revelation confirms the prophecy of Jesus Christ, because nobody knows the day nor the hour in which he will return, just because it is God's purpose. The chronology of the Bible does not allow us to specify your dates, whose mystery only belongs to the Father, just as we can also calculate the number of grains of sand of the sea or the number of stars in the sky. We must understand that certain things, only the Father knows and not revealed to us know. Chronological data in the Good Book Early in my Christian walk, where he performed the reading of the Holy Bible, especially the Book of Genesis, I was impressed with the age that was assigned by God to the people who lived then. However, when searching the Internet corresponding to the Old Testament, we find that the telling of that period was only possible because of the construction of a family tree of the characters of the Bible at that time. Performing the sum of their ages is what led us to conclude that since the creation of the world until the birth of Jesus Christ, went into a period of approximately four thousand years. When he had already written almost every chapter of this work, God gave me to understand then why be in the Old Testament, such information on the ages of the characters of that era. And the reason is simple: the Bible had not made reference to the age of the characters of that era would not be possible today to draw from the Holy Book, the six thousand years have passed since the creation


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of the world. Given the revelation of mysteries reserved for this end time, God has determined to enter the Holy Book, information necessary for us to understand the will of the Father We also understand that the word of God has a specific purpose as the period in which it is presented. Until the Lord Jesus Christ came to earth, God gave to His people to understand what was needed at that moment. And what was the understanding given that opportunity? The promise to the patriarchs. With the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, then God has extended the understanding of His purpose as the word brought by His Son. And now what was the understanding granted? The consummation of the promise. For Jesus said:

LK 24:44 And he said unto them, These are the words which I spake unto you, while I was yet with you, that all things must be fulfilled, which were written in the law of Moses, and in the prophets, and in the psalms, concerning me.

Finally, after more than two thousand years of the resurrection of Jesus Christ, which the understanding that God has reserved for this time of the end? The return of our Lord Jesus Christ. He even said so prophetic:

LK 12:54 And he said also to the people, When ye see a cloud rise out of the west, straightway ye say, There cometh a shower; and so it is. LK 12:55 And when ye see the south wind blow, ye say, There will be heat; and it cometh to pass. LK 12:56 Ye hypocrites, ye can discern the face of the sky and of the earth; but how is it that ye do not discern this time?

We learn from this passage, that from the moment it is granted to humans, prior knowledge of certain information, he can discern about future events. However, because of all the existing content in the Holy Bible, plus the confirmation of the signs revealed by Jesus, then we were allowed to understand the timing of the return of our Lord Jesus Christ.


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Chapter 6

DIVINE NUMBER

INTRODUCTION

Besides the presentation of this work about the numbers that are present in the Holy Bible and its importance and significance for this end time, we will demonstrate how the numbers were also used by God at the creation of all things. Called as the number of gold, among other names, this number is present in nature, architecture, music, geometry, etc.. The number of gold is no more than a numerical value whose approximate value is 1.618. This irrational number is considered by many the symbol of harmony. The Greek school of Pythagoras studied and observed many relationships and numerical models that appear in nature, beauty, aesthetics, and other musical harmony, but probably most important is the golden ratio, divine ratio or divine proportion. To divide a line segment AB into two parts, we would have a multitude of ways to do so. There is one, however, that seems more pleasing to the eye, as if translated to a harmonious working of our senses. For this division, the German mathematician Zeizing formulated in 1855, the following principle: "For a whole divided into two unequal parts look nice from the standpoint of form, should present the lowest and highest part of the same relationship between this and the whole."


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The story of this enigmatic number is lost in antiquity. In Egypt, for example, the pyramids of Giza were built according to the golden ratio: the ratio of the height of a face and half the base side of the Great Pyramid is equal to the number of gold. Built for many hundreds of years later, around 447 and 433 BC, the Greek Parthenon, temple representative of the Age of Pericles contains the reason of Gold in the rectangle that contains the facade, which shows the desire to achieve a beautiful and harmonious work . Phidias was the sculptor and architect in charge of construction of this temple. The term adjusted for the number of gold is the original name of the architect - the Greek letter Φ (Phi caps). Greeks also considered the rectangle whose sides had this relationship had a special aesthetic harmony and called it the golden rectangle golden rectangle or, considering this as an exceptional virtue harmony. Likewise, in Renaissance painting stands out for one of the most famous paintings of Leonardo da Vinci: the Mona Lisa, which presents the Golden Rectangle in multiple locations: (a) drawing a rectangle around the face of the resulting rectangle is a Golden rectangle, (b) dividing this rectangle with a line through the eyes, the new rectangle is also achieved Gold and (c) the dimensions of the frame also represents the ratio of Gold. IN NATURE The mystery and charm that is associated with this number exceeds the limited horizon of all that is human! In nature in many situations we can observe the presence of this number. Here are some examples that leave us perplexed and amazed: In the human body One area that was Leonardo da Vinci studied the proportions of the human body and here again we have reason to Gold:

In this study it appears that the proportions of the human body contain the ratio of Gold. In this case we can see the symmetry in the face of a man drawn by Leonardo. The artist superimposed on the painting a square divided by rectangles, some of which with the approximate ratio of gold.


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Yet not long ago a guy went to the Society of Fibonacci with a curious request: He asked the couples to participate in an experiment. For that asked husbands to them to measure the height of the woman's navel and divide by its height. The individual states that all couples in the ratio was about 0.618. We know that for the ancient Greeks, a person would be considered beautiful if it possessed a pattern related to the number 1,618. Thus, we consider 1.83 m as the standard measure. Let us look, therefore, the following figure:

Figure - Dimensions harmonics (aureus) of the human body. To divide 1.83 m (total height C) 1.131 m (distance from the navel to the soles of your feet U), we obtain as the reason, the number of gold. Also obtain this number by dividing the distance from forehead to chin (X), the distance from ear to chin (Y). So too will happen, when we relate the total length of the arm (B) with the distance from elbow to tip of middle finger (D). It may be noted then that there is a measure of harmony in the constitution of the human body. IN PLANTS In plants, various animals and in many other


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situations we are confronted with the presence of this enigmatic number. Their presence can be direct or be camouflaged or associated with the Fibonacci sequence. This is the case of sunflowers that belong to the Compositae family. The seeds form two sets of logarithmic spirals in different directions. The number of seeds of each set is different, but they are two consecutive Fibonacci numbers.

The same happens with pinecones.

In general, the pattern of plant development may be related to the Fibonacci number. For example spurge, a small blue or white flower that is found in calcareous, has two large sepals, three small sepals, five petals and stamens 8.


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Jasmine: We can perceive the presence of the golden number through the jasmine flower, is given below. It is represented the pentagram, symbol of the Pythagorean school. By the theorem of mean and extreme ratio of segments, the number will reach 1,618.

Figure – The jasmine and the representation of the pentagram in its constitution. Other flowers also have a structure similar, like lilies and petunias, among others. Other beings also have this characteristic. The star-fish, aquatic animal, is a classic example. BEEHIVE: Beehive is the name given to a colony of bees or the shelter built for or by bees. Hive bees use to shelter their offspring, creating them and store honey. Domesticated bees have built their hives in apiaries. A hive usually has 80 thousand bees, most of whom are females (workers). The number of females and males is given by the number of gold (divine proportion). FINAL Reported in this study, a brief summary of the number of gold, to show his constant presence not only in nature but also in other fields such as architecture, music, geometry, etc.. We highlight some examples where the number gold presents itself in our day to day, to clarify their relevance in our world. But might ask yourself: What is the relationship of this work that


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addresses the biblical numbers to the study of the number of gold? It is found that the seginte: Just as God is used in the Sacred Book of the numbers to determine their purpose, since the creation of the world until the installation of His Kingdom, so too does the order to be used in their creative works. When God created things in heaven and on earth, is how we imagined at the time of creation, He also determined that such works were subject to given constraints, ie: it creates human beings, plants, animals, etc.., and after your voice command, everything is subject according to what He has appointed. The number of gold is one such control, ie to make everything according to your desire, the growth of man, plants, animals, must occur according to a divine proportion (golden number). As we said earlier, this divine proportion translates to a harmonious working of our senses. In summary, the work of God. We must realize that the discoveries made by man, are nothing more than a revelation given by God at some designated time according to your purpose. It's like refletíssemos: Children during their growth, they find things they wish or things are revealed to them as the moment that they are prepared to understand them?


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CHAPTER 7

BOOK FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE OF THE TIME

When I started preparing this study, was not yet in my mind the

knowledge of what was presented here. Over the course of preparation of this work, we are adding what we understood to be God's will. When however, had traveled all the verses that we felt needed to make this

work, I started thinking about how the closure would make this work. It was then that God showed me the verses that we transcribe below:

DAN 12:4 But thou, O Daniel, shut up the words, and seal the book, even to the time of the end: many shall run to and fro, and knowledge shall be increased. DAN 12:8 And I heard, but I understood not: then said I, O my Lord, what shall be the end of these things? DAN 12:9 And he said, Go thy way, Daniel: for the words are closed up and sealed till the time of the end. DAN 12:10 Many shall be purified, and made white, and tried; but the wicked shall do wickedly: and none of the wicked shall understand; but the wise shall understand. REV 10:9 And I went unto the angel, and said unto him, Give me the little book. And he said unto me, Take it, and eat it up; and it shall make thy belly bitter, but it shall be in thy mouth sweet as honey. REV 10:10 And I took the little book out of the angel's hand, and ate it up; and it was in my mouth sweet as honey: and as soon as I had eaten it, my belly was bitter. REV 10:11 And he said unto me, Thou must prophesy again before many peoples, and nations, and tongues, and kings. REV 22:10 And he saith unto me, Seal not the sayings of the prophecy of this book: for the time is


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at hand. REV 22:11 He that is unjust, let him be unjust still: and he which is filthy, let him be filthy still: and he that is righteous, let him be righteous still: and he that is holy, let him be holy still. REV 22:12 And, behold, I come quickly; and my reward is with me, to give every man according as his work shall be.

(Daniel 12:4) - E tu, Daniel, encerra estas palavras e sela este livro, até ao fim do tempo; muitos correrão de uma parte para outra, e o conhecimento se multiplicará. (Daniel 12:8) - Eu, pois, ouvi, mas não entendi; por isso eu disse: Senhor meu, qual será o fim destas coisas? (Daniel 12:9) - E ele disse: Vai, Daniel, porque estas palavras estão fechadas e seladas até ao tempo do fim. (Daniel 12:10) - Muitos serão purificados, e embranquecidos, e provados; mas os ímpios procederão impiamente, e nenhum dos ímpios entenderá, mas os sábios entenderão. (Apocalipse 10:9) - E fui ao anjo, dizendo-lhe: Dá-me o livrinho. E ele disse-me: Toma-o, e come-o, e ele fará amargo o teu ventre, mas na tua boca será doce como mel. (Apocalipse 10:10) - E tomei o livrinho da mão do anjo, e comi-o; e na minha boca era doce como mel; e, havendo-o comido, o meu ventre ficou amargo. (Apocalipse 10:11) - E ele disse-me: Importa que profetizes outra vez a muitos povos, e nações, e línguas e reis. (Apocalipse 22:10) - E disse-me: Não seles as palavras da profecia deste livro; porque próximo está o tempo. (Apocalipse 22:11) - Quem é injusto, faça injustiça ainda; e quem está sujo, suje-se ainda; e quem é justo, faça justiça ainda; e quem é santo, seja santificado ainda. (Apocalipse 22:12) - E, eis que cedo venho, e o meu galardão está comigo, para dar a cada um segundo a sua obra.


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During the period in which the prophet Daniel lived, he wanted to understand things at that moment that you were not allowed, because they were booked and sealed to be understood in the end time. Later, after Jesus Christ has risen from the dead, the Lord said to John in Revelation, for it does not seal the words of the prophecy of that book, because the end time was near. But undoubtedly, we are living the end time. Minimum values of a decent society are almost destroyed. The family, a body that God created and blessed, base of support for a balanced relationship between humans, is heading for its total destruction. Soon, the book that was sealed once and now is no longer closed. Everything that we present, we believe that was granted by God, by his permission, that were brought to light the humanity, for information at the present time. And what is the purpose of God for these revelations came to our attention these days? Among others, two purposes are of paramount importance, if not essential to motivate these revelations: The first to be demonstrated to the people of this time, the perfect harmony that is in the Holy Book, the integration that exists in biblical texts, from Genesis to Revelation. This is for humanity to recognize the perfection that is the word of God, although in recent centuries, have made a real retaliation for the word of God to the satisfaction of earthly interests, without their commitment to the spiritual realm, which belongs to God . Thus, these revelations come with the purpose of showing that the word of God is living and eternal, because He will fulfill everything we promised. The second purpose and most important of all is to, once again demonstrated the momentum that is in the word of God, seek the repentance of the people, so they accept and confess the Lord Jesus Christ as the only Savior of their lives.

2PET 3:9 The Lord is not slack concerning his promise, as some men count slackness; but is longsuffering to us-ward, not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance. REV 22:12 And, behold, I come quickly; and my reward is with me, to give every man according as his work shall be. REV 22:20 He which testifieth these things saith, Surely I come quickly. Amen. Even so, come, Lord Jesus.


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